Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating CulturesAnanya Jahanara Kabir, Deanne Williams Cambridge University Press, 10 mars 2005 - 298 pages Postcolonial Approaches to the Middle Ages is a collection of original essays dedicated to exploring the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies. Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, including art history, cartography, Anglo-Saxonand Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medievaland postcolonial studies through the exploration of a common theme: translation in its broadest sense as a mechanism of and metaphor for cultures in contact, confrontation and competition. The essays form a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power. |
Table des matières
a return to wonder | 1 |
visual imagery of | 16 |
AngloSaxon England and the postcolonial void | 25 |
Mapping the ends of empire | 48 |
the postcolonial Beowulf from Heorot | 77 |
bodies and boundaries | 105 |
Gowers monster | 127 |
imperial Rome medieval | 183 |
the colonial formation | 205 |
The protocolonial baroque of La Celestina | 227 |
pre and postcolonial | 253 |
Bibliography | 269 |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Volume 54 de Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, ISSN 0959-5767 Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures, Ananya Jahanara Kabir |
| Rédacteurs | Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Deanne Williams |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0521827310, 9780521827317 |
| Longueur | 298 pages |
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