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The Postcolonial Middle Ages

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  1. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction Midcolonial

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 1-17

  3. From Due East to True North: Orientalism and Orientation

    • Suzanne Conklin Akbari
    Pages 19-34

  4. Coming Out of Exile: Dante on the Orient Express

    • Kathleen Biddick
    Pages 35-52

  5. Chaucer after Smithfield: From Postcolonial Writer to Imperialist Author

    • John M. Bowers
    Pages 53-66

  6. Cilician Armenian Métissage and Hetoum’s la Fleur Des Histoires de La Terre D’orient

    • Glenn Burger
    Pages 67-83

  7. Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 85-104

  8. Time Behind the Veil: The Media, the Middle Ages, and Orientalism Now

    • Kathleen Davis
    Pages 105-122

  9. Native Studies: Orientalism and Medievalism

    • John M. Ganim
    Pages 123-134

  10. The Romance of England: Richard Coer De Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation

    • Geraldine Heng
    Pages 135-171

  11. Marking Time: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr and the Colonial Refrain

    • Patricia Clare Ingham
    Pages 173-191

  12. Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461

    • Steven F. Kruger
    Pages 193-208

  13. Common Language and Common Profit

    • Kellie Robertson
    Pages 209-228

  14. Alien Nation: London’s Aliens and Lydgate’s Mummings for the Mercers and Goldsmiths

    • Claire Sponsler
    Pages 229-242

  15. Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew

    • Sylvia Tomasch
    Pages 243-260

  16. Imperial Fetishism: Prester John Among the Natives

    • Michael Uebel
    Pages 261-282

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 283-286
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About this book

An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is the first to apply post-colonial 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.

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'...an impressive accomplishment, exemplifying the many possible opportunities and potential difficulties medievalists face in engaging and contributing to a significant strand of cultural studies.' - Speculum

'The volume is a very strong compilation, and indeed a useful guide to the richness of post-colonial enquiry...The real strength of this book resides in the range and diversity of the topics it examines and the quality of many of the contributions.' - Cynthia J. Neville, Canadian Journal of History

About the authors

JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. He is the author of Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages and the editor of Monster Theory and Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.

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