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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2007.
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| Colección: | Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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