Domesticating Amazons in The Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Domesticating Amazons in The Knight's Tale
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 331-54.
- Description
- Explores the "postcolonial uneasiness visible" in KnT, particularly in Hippolyta's subversive mimicry in the face of efforts by Theseus and the Knight to westernize her "Amazon-ness." Emelye's powerful gaze upon the victorious Arcite reveals similar slippage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.