Postcolonial fictions in the Roman de Perceforest : cultural identities and hybridities /

This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity...

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主要作者: Huot, Sylvia
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer 2007.
叢編:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 1.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81s2g
書本目錄:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Part I. Founding Myths:Nature, Culture, and the Production of a British Kingdom; 1. First Encounters: Gadifer in the Deserts d'Escoce; 2. Testing Boundaries: Colonial Culture and Indigenous Nature; 3. The King, His Law, and His Kingdom; Part II. Heteronormative Sexuality and the Mission Civilisatrice; 4. Compulsory Love; 5. Marriage and the Management of Difference: Between Incest and Miscegenation; 6. Sexual Violence, Imperial Conquest, and the Bonds between Men; 7. Lest We Forget: The Trojan War as Cultural Matrix
  • 8. Lest We Remember: The Artifice of HistoryCONCLUSION; GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES IN PERCEFOREST; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX