Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic

ISBN-13: 9781138879508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 291 str.

Jacqueline De Weever

Opis

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"By applying the theories of postcolonial criticism, de Weever attempts to make clear the racist and imperialist biases of medieval epic poets. In so doing she both puts in relief the culturally loaded treatment of the Saracen princess in the works studied and raises important questions about the danger of projecting modern cultural concepts onto an ancient poetic form." -- Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Whitening the Saracen: The Erasure of Alterity; Chapter 2 Demonizing the Saracen: The Inscription of the Monstrous Other; Chapter 3 Subversions of Treachery and the Beautiful Easterner; Chapter 4 Paradox and the Discourse of Protest; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Appendix Portraits and Translations; Bibliography Index;

O autorze

Jacqueline Deweever