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      Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic

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      Sheba's Daughters book

      Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
      ByJacqueline de Weever
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1998
      eBook Published 1 April 1998
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203775424
      Pages 292
      eBook ISBN 9780203775424
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      de Weever, J. (1998). Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203775424

      ABSTRACT

      Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.The texts considered are written in  the major European languages of the time and range from the Song of Songs through Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova to such epics and romances as Erec et Enide,Doon de Maience, Fierabras, La Prise d'Orange, Ars Versificatoria, The Sowdone of Babylone, and Parzifal.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|50 pages

      Whitening the Saracen: The Erasure of Alterity

      chapter 2|57 pages

      Demonizing the Saracen: The Inscription of the Monstrous Other

      chapter 3|37 pages

      Subversions of Treachery and the Beautiful Easterner

      chapter 4|37 pages

      Paradox and the Discourse of Protest

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Conclusion

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