Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Sahar Amer
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Description for Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Hardback. Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety.
In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812240870
SKU
V9780812240870
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Ref
99-1
About Sahar Amer
Sahar Amer is Associate Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
"Crossing Borders is a bold and groundbreaking work. Situated at the nexus of queer theory and postcolonial medievalism, it interrogates and seeks to conjoin two significant areas of inquiry: the literary representation of lesbianism and the influence of Arabic traditions on medieval French narrative. Working across a range of genres in both languages, Sahar Amer unearths hitherto unrecognized allusions to ... Read more