Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of 'The Man of Law's Tale,' 'The Monk's Tale,' and 'The Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of 'The Man of Law's Tale,' 'The Monk's Tale,' and 'The Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds. Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 158-82.
- Description
- Considers three of the CT that contain 'virago' figures and focus on an encounter between East and West at the heart of the tales. Chaucer's attitude to the set of viragos is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the categories of difference that they strongly advocate, thus creating a space in which the medieval racial and racist clichés concerning Oriental viragos may be reconsidered.
- Alternative Title
- Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Monk and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale