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Getting Medieval - Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Paperback)
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Getting Medieval - Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Paperback)
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In "Getting Medieval "Carolyn Dinshaw examines
communities--dissident and orthodox--in late-fourteenth and
early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer
history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw
demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry into
pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to current issues in
cultural studies. In the process, she makes important connections
between past and present cultures that until now have not been
realized.
In her pursuit of historical analyses that embrace the
heterogeneity and indeterminacy of sex and sexuality, Dinshaw
examines canonical Middle English texts such as the "Canterbury
Tales" and "The""Book of Margery Kempe." She examines polemics
around the religious dissidents known as the Lollards as well as
accounts of prostitutes in London to address questions of how
particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized
while others were proscribed. By exploring contemporary
(mis)appropriations of medieval tropes in texts ranging from
Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" to recent Congressional debates
on U.S. cultural production, Dinshaw demonstrates how such modern
media can serve to reinforce constrictive heteronormative values
and deny the multifarious nature of history. Finally, she works
with and against the theories of Michel Foucault, Homi K. Bhabha,
Roland Barthes, and John Boswell to show how deconstructionist
impulses as well as historical perspectives can further an
understanding of community in both pre- and postmodern
societies.
This long-anticipated volume will be indispensible to medieval and
queer scholars and will be welcomed by a larger cultural studies
audience.
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