Muslim Griselda: The Politics of Gender and Religion in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'The Girl from the Coast'
- Author / Editor
- Raybin, David.
Muslim Griselda: The Politics of Gender and Religion in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'The Girl from the Coast'
- Published
- Exemplaria 21 (2009): 179-200.
- Description
- Raybin compares the work by the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer with ClT. Both works involve a powerful man who marries a poor girl and who eventually dismisses her. Pramoedya pays careful attention to the heroine's thoughts and feelings, while Chaucer largely obscures Griselda's feelings. Both works show how literature depicts the emotional life of "the oppressed female poor."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale