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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sahar Amer |
| ISBN: | 9780812240870 0812240871 |
| OCLC Number: | 183261813 |
| Description: | xii, 252 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Crossing disciplinary boundaries : a cross-cultural approach to same-sex love between women -- Crossing linguistic borders : Etienne de Fougères's Livre des manières and Arabic erotic treatises -- Crossing sartorial lines : female same-sex marriage in Yde et Olive and The story of Qamar al-Zaman and Princess Boudour from the One thousand and one nights -- Crossing the lines of friendship : Jean Renart's Escoufle, Saracen silk and intercultural encounters -- Crossing social and cultural borders : Jean Renart's Escoufle and the traditions of Zarf, Jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate world -- Beyond Orientalist presuppositions. |
| Series Title: | The Middle Ages series. |
| Responsibility: | Sahar Amer. |
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"Crossing Borders is a bold and groundbreaking work. Situated at the nexus of queer theory and postcolonial medievalism, it interrogates and seeks to conjoin two significant areas of inquiry: the literary representation of lesbianism and the influence of Arabic traditions on medieval French narrative. Working across a range of genres in both languages, Sahar Amer unearths hitherto unrecognized allusions to lesbianism in Old French texts, arguing that these represent traces of Arabic influence on the key genres of romance and epic."-Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz "A must read for scholars working in Arabic and European medieval studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory, gender and sexuality, comparative literature, and a variety of other disciplines."-Journal of Arabic Literature Read more...
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- French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
- Arabic literature -- History and criticism.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Lesbische Liebe <Motiv>
- Literatur.
- Arabisch.
- Französisch.
- Arabic literature -- History and criticism
- French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
- Geschichte -- 1150-1500
- Lesbians in literature
