Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures

by Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Editor), Deanne Williams (Editor)

Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, including art history, cartography, and Anglo-Saxon and Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies through the exploration of a common translation in its broadest sense as a mechanism of, and metaphor for, cultures in contact, confrontation and competition. The essays form a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power.

Genres: Nonfiction

316 pages, Hardcover

First published March 10, 2005

Reviews

[Jayden King · Rating 4 out of 5]

A super in-depth intersectional approach to the Middle Ages. The earlier chapters were of most interest to me, examining medieval England as a postcolonial society following the exodus of the Romans.