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9781846155826 (ebook)
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The 'Roman de Perceforest' explores issues of ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity in an imaginary pre-Arthurian Britain, ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. The 'Roman de Perceforest' was composed about 1340 for William I, Count of Hainaut. The vast romance, building on the prose romance cycles of the thirteenth century, 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 a fascinating exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity. Drawing on the insights of contemporary postcolonial theory, Sylvia Huot examines the author's treatment of basic concepts such as 'nature' and 'culture', 'savagery' and 'civilisation'. Particular attention is given to the text's treatment of gender and sexuality as focal points of cultural identity, to its construction of the ethnic categories of 'Greek' and 'Trojan', and to its exposition of the ideological biases inherent in any historical narrative. SYLVIA HUOT is Reader in Medieval French Literature and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Founding Myths: Nature, Culture, and the Production of a British Kingdom --
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First Encounters: Gadifer in the Deserts d'Escoce
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Testing Boundaries: Colonial Culture and Indigenous Nature
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The King, His Law, and His Kingdom
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Heteronormative Sexuality and the Mission Civilisatrice --
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Compulsory Love
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Marriage and the Management of Difference: Between Incest and Miscegenation
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Sexual Violence, Imperial Conquest and the Bonds between Men
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Greeks, Trojans, and the Construction of British History --
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Lest We Forget: The Trojan War as a Cultural Matrix
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Lest We Remember: The Artifice of History
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Print version: ISBN 9781843841043
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
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