The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

by Jane Chance

Book Overview

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349531057
• ISBN13: 9781349531059
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"