love between women in medieval French and Arabic literatures
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Amer, Sahar
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, lesbianisme, gender, erotiek, cultuur, islam, christendom, Arabisch, Frans, middeleeuwen
- Description
- Situated at the nexus of queer theory and postcolonial medievalism, ‘Crossing Borders’ interrogates and seeks to conjoin two areas of inquiry: the literary representation of lesbianism and the influence of Arabic traditions on medieval French narrative. Working across a range of genres in both languages, including theological, scientific, and literary texts, Amer unearths hitherto unrecognized allusions to lesbianism in Old French texts.