A Tale of Two Wives: The Transnational Poetry of Patience Agbabi and Jean "Binta" Breeze.

Description: Uses postcolonial theory to argue that Agbabi and Breeze "interrogate the borders of British poetry and its ‘modernity,'" by capitalizing on the "subversive elements already present" in WBPT, "from the subtle irony and the crafty use of the ‘vernacular' to the foregrounding of female empowerment." The two "contemporary revisions of the canon mirror an intertextual, transnational practice that was already widely present in the Middle Ages."

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale