Sheba's daughters : whitening and demonizing the Saracen woman in medieval French epic
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Sheba's daughters : whitening and demonizing the Saracen woman in medieval French epic
（Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 2077）
Garland, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index
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Description
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.The texts considered are written in the major European languages of the time and range from the Song of Songs through Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova to such epics and romances as Erec et Enide,Doon de Maience, Fierabras, La Prise d'Orange, Ars Versificatoria, The Sowdone of Babylone, and Parzifal.
Table of Contents
- 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
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