Screen LibraryCrossing borders : love between women in medieval french and arabic literatures /
Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2008 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780812201086 |
| Index Number: | PQ155 |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries -- CHAPTER TWO. Crossing Linguistic Borders -- CHAPTER THREE. Crossing Sartorial Lines -- CHAPTER FOUR. Crossing the Lines of Friendship -- CHAPTER FIVE. Crossing Social and Cultural Borders -- CONCLUSION. Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |