Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: From "St. Erkenwald" to Spenser in Ireland.

Autor:	Schwyzer, Philip
Předmět:	MIDDLE English language ARCHAEOLOGY POETRY (Literary form)
Zdroj:	Representations; Summer2006, Vol. 95 Issue 1, p1-26, 26p
Abstrakt:	This essay explores a range of medieval and early modern English texts, including the alliterative poem "St. Erkenwald" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and "View of the Present State of Ireland," in which the remains of subjugated peoples are exhumed and subsequently made to disappear. These texts, it is argued, participate in a tradition of colonial archaeology in which the cleansing of the earth is a step toward the creation of an English homeland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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