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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... relations in non-Western and at times non-Christian literatures that have begun to enrich scholarly investigations of medieval Western European writings. Ruth Vanita's publications on same—sex love in India, Daniel Boyarin's queer ...
... relation and in opposition to another discourse. It is precisely this intertextuality, the dialogue that French writings engage between Western generic and rhetorical conventions on the one hand and Arabic literary texts and contexts on ...
... relations and that the majority of surviving literary texts are composed by men, have all contributed to the further silencing of the medieval literary lesbian in contemporary scholarship. Perhaps the most persistent methodological (and ...
... is evident in the use of the term sahq, as we will see in detail below. Finally, the term “lesbian” (leshiai, plural of leshian)—used to mean same-sex relations between women—is not entirely absent in the Christian Middle 6 CHAPTER ONE.
... relations with other women as evidence of lesbian practices in medieval textuality. The absence of a name, rather than meaning the absence of lesbianism, might indicate that lesbianism was constructed publicly as silent and nameless ...
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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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