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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
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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