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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... textual production. Old French literature on female homoeroticism may thus be con— sidered an intersection of textual surfaces, a dialogue between different contexts; it is plural by definition, as it absorbs, blends, and transforms ...
... Borders proposes to explore the textual, sexual, and cultural interconnections between medieval France and the Arab Islamicate world. CHAPTER ONE Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries A Cross-Cultural Approach to Same-Sex xii PREFACE.
... textual strategies at 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 ...
... textual (and perhaps even social) reality have often been occulted or thought to be nonexistent, it is undoubtedly because much of medieval French literary writings continues to be read in isolation from the context of cultural ...
... textual/ sexual strategies to express same—sex love between women in medieval French literature. Rather than demonstrating that Islam sanctions lascivious practices, my reading of such homoerotic interludes highlights the interweaving ...
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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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