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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest - Cultural Identities and Hybridities (Hardcover)
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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest - Cultural Identities and Hybridities (Hardcover)
Series: Gallica
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The Roman de Perceforestexplores issues of ethnic and cultural
conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity in an imaginary
pre-Arthurian Britain, ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander
the Great. The Roman de Perceforest was composed about 1340 for
William I, Count of Hainaut. The vast romance, building on the
prose romance cycles of the thirteenth century, chronicles an
imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was
ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of
cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers a fascinating
exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict
and fusion, identity and hybridity. Drawing on the insights of
contemporary postcolonial theory, Sylvia Huot examines the author's
treatment of basic concepts such as "nature" and "culture",
"savagery" and "civilisation". Particular attention isgiven to the
text's treatment of gender and sexuality as focal points of
cultural identity, to its construction of the ethnic categories of
"Greek" and "Trojan", and to its exposition of the ideological
biases inherent in any historical narrative. Written in the
fourteenth century, revived at the fifteenth-century Burgundian
court, and twice printed in sixteenth-century Paris, Perceforest is
both a masterpiece of medieval literature and a vehicle for the
transmission of medieval thought into the early modern era of
global exploration and colonisation. SYLVIA HUOT is Reader in
Medieval French Literature and Fellow of Pembroke College,
Cambridge.
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