Gerald in the middle: Hybridity and historical narratives in History and Topography of Ireland and The Conquest of Ireland
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This article is interested in Gerald’s mediating stance as he negotiates the complex relationship between genre and genealogy, between, that is, the precedent of history writing in England and his personal interventions within that history as inflected by his identification as descendant of the Britons. Gerald formulates his role as a historian in a way that resists the resolution usually sought by arguments about him. I propose a reading of Gerald as a “colonized intellectual,” a term I borrow from Black Studies and postcolonial theory. Although the term emerges from a vastly different historical and political situation than Gerald’s, the idea of the “colonized intellectual” encapsulates the paradox of Gerald’s intellectual production and his political position within twelfth-century British society.
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