The postcolonial Middle Ages
By: edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Middle Ages -- History; Colonies
Description: "This collection of essays is the first to apply postcolonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which "aboriginal," "native," or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From due east to true north : orientalism and orientation / Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: Coming out of exile : Dante on the Orient Express / Kathleen Biddick; title: Chaucer after Smithfield / John M. Bowers; title: Cilician Armenian métissage and Hetoum's La fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient / Glenn Burger; title: Hybrids, monsters, borderlands : the bodies of Gerald of Wales / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: Time behind the veil : the media, the Middle Ages, and orientalism now / Kathleen Davis; title: Native studies : orientalism and medievalism / John M. Ganim; title: The romance of England : Richard Coeur de Lyon, Saracens, Jews & the politics of race and nation / Geraldine Heng; title: Marking time : Branwen, daughter of Llyr and the colonial refrain / Patricia Ingham; title: Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461 / Steven F. Kruger; title: Common language and common profit / Kellie Robertson; title: Alien nation : London's aliens and Lydgate's mummings for the mercers and goldsmiths / Claire Sponsler; title: Postcolonial Chaucer and the virtual Jew / Sylvia Tomasch; title: Imperial fetishism : Prester John among the natives / Michael Uebel.