Hybridity in Geoffrey Chaucer’S the Canterbury Tales: Reconstructing Estate Boundaries
Journal: Hacettepe University Institutional Repository (hacettepe.edu.tr)
Year: 2015

This study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales reads his pilgrims as the hybrids of medieval borderline community, created by social mobility. Thus, drawing on Bhabha’s postcolonial concepts of hybridity, in–betweenness, third space and mimicry, this dissertation argues that Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales depicts a variety of medieval hybrid identities. Accordingly, Chapter I discusses the Knight as a medieval hybrid owing to the changes within his own estate, the nobility, and his conseq