Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics (Social Science for Social Justice)

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The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English,
features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both
and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover求an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Thanks to this edition, Latin-less readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also a masterpiece of Western literature.
In addition to the
and the letters–the first complete English translation of all seven in more than eighty years–this volume includes an Introduction, a map, and a chronology, Abelard’s
, letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to
, and selected songs and poems by Abelard, among them a previously untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes.