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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Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. unpredictability and variety of expressions of female attachments. Queering medieval texts permitted scholars to move beyond a description of the sexual in its ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. medieval lesbian expression and those who ... texts. In the following chapters, I will continue to explore how medieval French literary writings challenge our notions of ...
... text, which generates in the text a discourse of sexual alterity. We will see that the recourse to such Middle Eastern sociocultural ... (Arabic words for lesbianism and lesbian respectively) in medieval Arabic writings 16 CHAPTER ONE.
... Arabic writings did not result in a richer critical production.62 This state of scholarship into alternative sexual ... texts dealing precisely with this topic. Furthermore, if one broadens the category of Arab les— bian to that of Arab ...
... Arabic literary writings, sahiqat (lesbians) were associated rather with ... Arabic literary tradition is regularly traced back forty years before the ... word than men. Oh, the difference between your loyalty and theirs!69 If 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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