ABSTRACT This essay examines the racial formation of Mongols in The King of Tars, a fourteenth-century Middle English romance, in relation to the Syrian geopolitics and Latin European historiographical records that inspired its composition. Because the romance features overt instances of racialized physiognomy, such as skin color changing across confessional lines and the normalization of whiteness for the Christian body, scholars have overlooked how race operates in the text in less visible ways. Critical interest has largely focused on the familiar, oppositional binary of Christendom versus Islam that characterizes the crusade romance genre, thus emphasizing how the text demonstrates a racialization of religion in the period. However, by analyzing the romance in relation to its historiographical source material, this essay reveals how the less visible, yet still present, Mongol figure — represented principally through the Princess of Tars — operates within a nexus of eastern alterity that drives the colonialist fantasy of Muslim conversion and genocide. The essay coins the term “exotic ally” to describe this particular racial construction of Mongols and capture how a romance that is often read through a white-black and Christian-Muslim binary of racial-religious conflict is engaged in a much more complex process of racial thinking.

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s族的蒙古公主：Global族之王中的全球关系和种族形成（约1330年）

摘要本文探讨了十四世纪中古英语浪漫史《焦油之王》中蒙古人的种族构成，与叙利亚地缘政治和拉美欧洲史书的记载有关。由于浪漫史具有种族化的面相的明显实例，例如跨ess悔的肤色变化和基督教徒身体的白度正常化，因此学者们忽略了种族如何以较不明显的方式在文本中起作用。批评的兴趣主要集中在基督教世界与伊斯兰教的熟悉的，对立的二元性上，它表征了十字军东征的浪漫体裁，从而强调了这段经文如何表现出该时期宗教的种族化。但是，通过分析浪漫史及其史料，这篇文章揭示了蒙古人的身影（主要通过塔尔公主表示）是如何在东方改变的联系内运作的，该现象不那么明显，但仍然存在，这种改变驱使殖民主义幻想着穆斯林conversion依和种族灭绝。这篇文章用“异国盟友”一词来形容蒙古人的这种特殊种族结构，并捕捉了一个经常通过种族宗教冲突的白黑和基督教-穆斯林双元读懂的浪漫故事如何经历的复杂过程。种族思维。