Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. mar. 2013 - 264 strani Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. |
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... Arabic role inFrench writings is not to be interpreted as the influence of one tradition over theother. For,as we ... literary productionson samesex desire. We will see that the strategies of gender representation deployed in the medieval ...
... Arabic eroticism has played in the construction of alternative sexualities in Old French literary texts. My research reveals that it was often through the detour of Arabic textuality, through the recourse to thematic motifs and the ...
... literary corpus, a cultural tradition that precedes or is contemporary to ... Arabic intertext. The medieval French discourse on alternative female ... Arabic literary texts and contexts on the other that We will seek to unveil throughout ...
... literary and cultural intermixing from its most explicit to its most implicit manifestations. While I consider at first the most explicit resonances between the French literary representations of lesbianism and the medieval Arabic ...
... literary discourse on same-sex desire and sexual practices between women that has thus far re— mained unnoticed. In so doing, it will unveil the unsuspected role that medieval Arabic sexological literature and culture has played on the ...
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Crossing Linguistic Borders Etienne de Fougèress Livre des Manières and Arabic Erotic Treatises | 29 |
Crossing Sartorial Lines Female SameSex Marriage in Yde et Olive and The Story of Qamar alZaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand ... | 50 |
Crossing the Lines of Friendship Jean Renarts Escoufle Saracen Silk and Intercultural Encounters | 88 |
Crossing Social and Cultural Borders Jean Renarts Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate World | 121 |
Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 217 |
Index | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Omejen predogled - 2008 |
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