The Medieval Borderline Identities: The Guildsmen in History and in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Yıldız, Nazan.

Title
The Medieval Borderline Identities: The Guildsmen in History and in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 83-97.

Description
Uses Homi Bhabha's concepts of borderline community and mimicry ("The Location of Culture" [1994]) to investigate the descriptions of the guildsmen in GP, 361-78, as they relate to shifts and tensions in Chaucer’s contemporary society, focusing on "othering" within traditional hierarchy and on sartorial mimicry. Includes historical and literary information about guildsmen.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales