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- Title: Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 199 KB
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures. By SAHAR AMER. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2008. Pp. xii + 252. $55. Crossing Borders argues that the interpretation of lesbian relationships in medieval French literature can be enriched by reading these texts together with the textual and cultural interactions between medieval French and Arabic literature. The book is groundbreaking in three related ways. First, because of the national language institutional structures within which scholars here and abroad are trained, this is one of very few books to integrate two literary traditions, one of which is Arabic, using primary sources in the original languages. Second, it is one of very few books to address the literary portrayal of homoerotic relationships in the premodern Muslim world. Third, the book proposes that the concept of intertextuality across cultural boundaries be expanded to include intercultural relations, not just as background but as an integral part of interpretation.