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Article: Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2008
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Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy
By Geraldine Heng
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003
Empire of Magic is one of those rare books that is both deeply rooted in the immediate historical and cultural contexts of the texts it considers and wide-ranging and conceptually challenging in ways that recommend it to those outside medieval or romance studies per se. Working at the forefront of a growing body of medievalist work in postcolonial, race, and gender/sexuality studies, Heng brilliantly and provocatively rethinks what she calls romance's re-beginning in early twelfth-century England, the reasons for ...