Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Other Encounters
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5015-2149-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 235 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind - the World, the Flesh and the Devil - reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sikorska, Liliana

Über Autor(innen)

Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.