The Postcolonial Middle Ages

by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780312239817
• ISBN10: 0312239815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The increased importance of minority and subjugated voices has led to a new interest in the effects of colonization and displacement on medieval culture. 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.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences at George Washington University.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	vii
Introduction Midcolonial	1	(18)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
From Due East to True North: Orientalism and Orientation	19	(16)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Coming Out of Exile: Dante on the Orient Express	35	(18)
Kathleen Biddick
Chaucer after Smithfield: From Postcolonial Writer to Imperialist Author	53	(14)
John M. Bowers
Cilician Armenian Metissage and Hetoum's La Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient	67	(18)
Glenn Burger
Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales	85	(20)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Time Behind the Veil: The Media, the Middle Ages, and Orientalism Now	105	(18)
Kathleen Davis
Native Studies: Orientalism and Medievalism	123	(12)
John M. Ganim
The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation	135	(38)
Geraldine Heng
Marking Time: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr and the Colonial Refrain	173	(20)
Patricia Clare Ingham
Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461	193	(16)
Steven F. Kruger
Common Language and Common Profit	209	(20)
Kellie Robertson
Alien Nation: London's Aliens and Lydgate's Mummings for the Mercers and Goldsmiths	229	(14)
Claire Sponsler
Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew	243	(18)
Sylvia Tomasch
Imperial Fetishism: Prester John among the Natives	261	(22)
Michael Uebel
Contributors	283	(2)
Index	285