The Postcolonial Middle Ages

An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is

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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER Series Editor The New Middle Ages presents transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures. It includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Presence and Presentation:Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition by Sherry J. Mou The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France by Constant J. Mews Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault by Philipp W. Rosemann For Her Good Estate: Elizabeth de Burgh (1295–1360) by Frances Underhill Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England by Mary Dockeray-Miller Listening to Heloise:The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman edited by Bonnie Wheeler The Postcolonial Middle Ages edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory by Robert Sturges Robes and Honor:The Medieval World of Investiture edited by Stewart Gordon Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women edited by Barbara Stevenson And Cynthia Ho Engagaing Words:The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages by Laurel Amtower

THE POSTCOLONIAL MIDDLE AGES Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

THE POSTCOLONIAL MIDDLE AGES

Copyright © Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 2000. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in hardcover in 2000 by St. Martin’s Press First PALGRAVETM edition: April 2001 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-0-312-23981-7 paperback ISBN 978-0-312-23981-7 ISBN 978-0-230-10734-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230107342 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The postcolonial Middle Ages / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. p. cm. (New Middle Ages) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-23981-7 1. Middle Ages—History. 2. Colonies. I. Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. D113.5.P65 2000 909.07 21—dc21 99–044203 CIP A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First paperback edition: May 2001 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

CONTENTS

Series Editor’s Foreword Introduction Midcolonial Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 1. From Due East to True North: Orientalism and Orientation Suzanne Conklin Akbari 2. Coming Out of Exile: Dante on the Orient Express Kathleen Biddick 3. Chaucer after Smithfield: From Postcolonial Writer to Imperialist Author John M. Bowers 4. Cilician Ar