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Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage
Edited by Francesco Stella
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXIV] 2024
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Chapter 21
A “postcolonial” approach to medieval Latin literature?

| Università di Siena

The chapter proposes an unconventional approach to the interpretation of medieval and post-medieval Latin textuality as post-colonial literature, in the sense of “expressed in a cultural system that in the post-Roman age is inevitably different from the writer’s native one and in a language other than the mother tongue”. This approach allows a new understanding of medieval Latin literature and early modernity as a secondary system of cultural production and of language as a communication code that can be analyzed with the linguistic tools of SLA.

Keywords: post-colonial Middle Ages, second language acquisition, secundary literature, non-native culture
Article outline
  • The theoretical framework
  • Carolingian cases
  • Extensions
  • Second language analysis
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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