LEADER 04077nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910463252503321 005 20211217002157.0 010 $a0-8122-0108-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201086 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418318 035 $a(OCoLC)859161108 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748640 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11569720 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11084249 035 $a(PQKB)10516570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442208 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26716 035 $a(DE-B1597)448961 035 $a(OCoLC)979910396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201086 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748640 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682321 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418318 100 $a20080104d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrossing borders$b[electronic resource] $elove between women in medieval French and Arabic literatures /$fSahar Amer 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51039-3 311 0 $a0-8122-4087-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-238) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tNOTE ON TRANSLITERATION --$tPREFACE --$tCHAPTER ONE. Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries --$tCHAPTER TWO. Crossing Linguistic Borders --$tCHAPTER THREE. Crossing Sartorial Lines --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Crossing the Lines of Friendship --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Crossing Social and Cultural Borders --$tCONCLUSION. Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS 330 $aGiven Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety.In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-sex desire and sexual practices that has gone all but unnoticed. The Arabic tradition on eroticism breaks through into French literary writings on gender and sexuality in often surprising ways, she argues, and she demonstrates how strategies of gender representation deployed in Arabic texts came to be models to imitate, contest, subvert, and at times censor in the West.Amer's analysis reveals Western literary representations of gender in the Middle Ages as cross-cultural, hybrid discourses as she reexamines borders-cultural, linguistic, historical, geographic-not as elements of separation and division but as fluid spaces of cultural exchange, adaptation, and collaboration. Crossing these borders, she salvages key Arabic and French writings on alternative sexual practices from oblivion to give voice to a group that has long been silenced. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aFrench literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArabic literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLesbians in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArabic literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLesbians in literature. 676 $a840.9/3526643 700 $aAmer$b Sahar$01046864 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463252503321 996 $aCrossing borders$92474100 997 $aUNINA