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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... played in the construction of alternative sexualities inOld French literary texts.My research reveals thatitwas oftenthrough the detour ofArabic textuality, through therecourseto thematicmotifs and the evocation of Middle Eastern ...
... played in French literary writings on gender and sexuality; and to affirm the centrality of a cross~cultural approach both to medieval studies and to theoretical discussions of gender and sexualities. The main conceptual paradigm ...
... 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 evocation of Middle ...
... played a secondary role in sexuality and reproduction, and were thus at some level not fully sexual. In addition, such relations were overlooked because of the prevailing Western phallocentric view of human sexuality, because “no sperm ...
... play in the construction of female homoeroticism. Lesbianism in me— dieval French literature, I submit, was denoted by a wider affective language, a broader range of behaviors, and a more expansive configuration of gender trouble than ...
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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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