Colonialism, Latinity, and Resistance
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Colonialism, Latinity, and Resistance
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 116-31.
- Description
- Bowers describes Chaucer's treatment of Latin texts throughout his "literary insurgency against [a] foreign incursion"--a kind of postcolonial resistance that is also consistent with Lollard vernacularization. Reads MLT as a "rejection" of Bede's authoritative account of the Christianization of England, part of an overall rewriting of history to assert an "English homeland," free of foreign, Latin domination.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies
- Man of Law and His Tale