Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees

ISBN-13: 9783030788568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 299 str.

Adam Goldwyn

Spis treści

1. Bearing Witness in Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki: Holocaust Literature and the Narration of Trauma in Byzantium.- 2. Prison Literature and Slave Narratives in Byzantium: John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki.- 3. The Carceral Imaginary in Byzantium: The Komnenian Novels as Holocaust Fiction.- 4. The Refugee as Historian: Niketas Choniates and the Capture of Constantinople.

O autorze

Adam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University. He is the co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Blurb

“By turns reflexive and daring, Goldwyn's book is riskful thinking at its best. For medievalists, it opens up new possibilities for reading and teaching the works that matter to us most -- those that somehow place us face-to-face with human Others and leave us feeling more than we can express. In Goldwyn's book, the face of the human Other presents itself, even if only briefly and in a moment of mortal danger.”

— Vincent Barletta, Stanford University, USA

“Innovative, illuminating and daring. This theoretically sophisticated book revolutionizes the study of Byzantine literature and enriches our understanding of angst, anxiety and trauma in the middle ages. This book provides an insightful discussion of captivity in the Byzantine era and a new interdisciplinary, trans-historical understanding of narratives which will captivate scholars for years to come.”

—Elena N. Boeck, DePaul University, USA