Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages : Translating Cultures (Hardcover)

Part I. Introduction: 1. A return to wonder Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams; Part II. The Afterlife of Rome: 2. Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void Nicholas Howe; 3. Mapping the ends of Empire Alfred Hiatt; 4. 'On Fagne Flor': the post-colonial Beowulf, from Heorot to Heaney Seth Lerer; Part III. Orientalism Before 1600: 5. Alexander in the Orient: bodies and boundaries in the Roman de toute chevalerie Suzanne Conklin Akbari; 6. Gower's monster Deanne Williams; 7. Turks as Trojans, Trojans as Turks: visual imagery of the Trojan War and the politics of cultural identity in fifteenth-century Europe James Harper; Part IV. Memory and Nostalgia: 8. Analogy in translation: Imperial Rome, medieval England and British India Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 9. 'Au commencement etait l'ile': the colonial formation of Joseph Bedier's Chanson de Roland Michelle R. Warren; 10. The protocolonial baroque of La Celestina Roland Greene; Epilogue: translations and transnationals: pre- and postcolonial Ato Quayson.