Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
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Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.
Rosanne Gasse is Professor of English Literature at Brandon University, Canada. Her work has been published in journals such as The Chaucer Review, JEGP, and Enarratio and she is the Reviews Editor for The Canadian Journal of Native Studies.Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.
Focuses on literary texts relevant to hybridity Explores the supernatural in medieval texts Examines mixed ethnic identity in middle English literature
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Rosanne P. Gasse
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British and Irish Literature middle ages hybridity mixed race Race and Ethnicity
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“As we continue to reinvent our investigations of the global and multicultural turns in medieval academic discourse, we can anticipate increasingly inventive frameworks like that offered by Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England ... . While the variety of texts, genres, and authors can at times feel disjointed, Hybridity’s sheer scope is something to admire as it invites readers to think about the hybrid state as one that problematized homogeneity even amid the Middle Ages.” (Thai-Catherine Matthews, Speculum, Vol. 100 (4), October, 2025)
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