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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the
literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their
alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing
culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by
gender difference: they constructed "unhomely" spaces. They
inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they
created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or
utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female
triviality-the homely female space-to provide autonomy. While these
methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how
cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari
have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as
dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of
Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite
Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and
Christine de Pizan.
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