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Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Michael A. Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh. Viewing the Welsh as England's original repressed Other, this book identifies and critiques the ways in which medieval narratives construe Wales as a barbaric peripheral zone requiring colonial control. By focusing on texts across a variety of genres by some of the major literary figures of the period - including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and John of Salisbury - Faletra offers innovative new readings that illuminate both the subtle power and the imaginative limitations of these matters of Britain.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination
• Author: Michael A. Faletra
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 243
• EAN: 9781137391025
• ISBN: 1137391022
• ID: 04771694
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 147 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. July 2014

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