The Postcolonial Middle Ages

Series Editor’s Foreword vii
Introduction Midcolonial 1
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
1. From Due East to True North:
Orientalism and Orientation 19
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
2. Coming Out of Exile:
Dante on the Orient Express 35
Kathleen Biddick
3. Chaucer after Smithfield:
From Postcolonial Writer to Imperialist Author 53
John M. Bowers
4. Cilician Armenian Métissage and Hetoum’s
La Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient 67
Glenn Burger
5. Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands:
The Bodies of Gerald of Wales 85
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
6. Time Behind the Veil:
The Media, the Middle Ages, and Orientalism Now 105
Kathleen Davis
7. Native Studies:
Orientalism and Medievalism 123
John M. Ganim
8. The Romance of England:
Richard Coer de Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and
the Politics of Race and Nation 135
Geraldine Heng
9. Marking Time:
Branwen, Daughter of Llyr and the Colonial Refrain 173
Patricia Clare Ingham
10. Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461 193
Steven F. Kruger
11. Common Language and Common Profit 209
Kellie Robertson
12. Alien Nation:
London’s Aliens and Lydgate’s Mummings
for the Mercers and Goldsmiths 229
Claire Sponsler
13. Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew 243
Sylvia Tomasch
14. Imperial Fetishism:
Prester John among the Natives 261
Michael Uebel
Contributors 283
Index 285