1st Edition
Sheba's Daughters Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
By Jacqueline de Weever
Copyright 1998
291 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Jacqueline Deweever
"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
