Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest: Cultural Identities and Hybridities

by Sylvia Huot

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841045
• ISBN13: 9781843841043
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.2"