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Informationen zum Autor Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Lecturer in English at Leeds University. Deanne Williams is Assistant Professor of English at York University! Toronto. Klappentext 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 theme: 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. Zusammenfassung This collection of original essays is dedicated to exploring the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies. Ranging across academic disciplines! this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies through the exploration of translation as a mechanism of and metaphor for cultures in contact! confrontation and competition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. A return to wonder Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams; Part II. The Afterlife of Rome: 2. Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void Nicholas Howe; 3. Mapping the ends of Empire Alfred Hiatt; 4. 'On Fagne Flor': the post-colonial Beowulf, from Heorot to Heaney Seth Lerer; Part III. Orientalism Before 1600: 5. Alexander in the Orient: bodies and boundaries in the Roman de toute chevalerie Suzanne Conklin Akbari; 6. Gower's monster Deanne Williams; 7. Turks as Trojans, Trojans as Turks: visual imagery of the Trojan War and the politics of cultural identity in fifteenth-century Europe James Harper; Part IV. Memory and Nostalgia: 8. Analogy in translation: Imperial Rome, medieval England and British India Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 9. 'Au commencement était l'ile': the colonial formation of Joseph Bédier's Chanson de Roland Michelle R. Warren; 10. The protocolonial baroque of La Celestina Roland Greene; Epilogue: translations and transnationals: pre- and postcolonial Ato Quayson....
