Joseph Bedier (1864-1938) was one of the most famous scholars of
his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe
and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his
time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated "Tristan
and Isolde" as well as France's national epic, "The Song of
Roland." Bedier was publicly committed to French hegemony, yet he
hailed from a culture that belied this ideal-the island of Reunion
in the southern Indian Ocean.
In "Creole Medievalism," Michelle Warren demonstrates that
Bedier's relationship to this multicultural and economically
peripheral colony motivates his nationalism in complex ways.
Simultaneously proud of his French heritage and nostalgic for the
island, Bedier defends French sovereignty based on an ambivalent
resistance to his creole culture. Warren shows that in the early
twentieth century, influential intellectuals from Reunion helped
define the new genre of the "colonial novel," adopting a
pro-colonial spirit that shaped both medieval and Francophone
studies. Probing the work of a once famous but little understood
cultural figure, "Creole Medievalism" illustrates how postcolonial
France and Reunion continue to grapple with histories too varied to
meet expectations of national unity.
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