Crossing Borders
ISBN: 9780812201086
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Lesbians in literature.; Arabic literature; French literature;

Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.


Sahar Amer is Associate Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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