Pale Faces : Race, Religion, and Affect in Chaucer's Texts and Their Readers

Author / Editor
Dinshaw, Carolyn.

Title
Pale Faces : Race, Religion, and Affect in Chaucer's Texts and Their Readers

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 19-41, 2001.

Description
Dinshaw considers her autobiographical "queer diasporic experience" as a "pale Indian" in light of the representations of conversion, otherness, and paleness in MLT and the generally unnoticed presence of Indian influences on early English studies. She offers her meditative analysis to encourage other medievalists to challenge the assumptions that underlie "rationalistic, post-Enlightenment" notions of temporality.

Alternative Title
Biennial Chaucer Lecture, the New Chaucer Society, Twelfth International Congress, 14-17 July 2000, University of London.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Man of Law and His Tale.