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Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Silvia Bigliazzi & Sharon Wood. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. xii + 221 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0–7546–5512–1, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2008, Page 91, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm132
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It is perhaps appropriate for a conference entitled “collaboration” and this, the ensuing volume (produced by co-editors), to emerge from a collaboration of universities hosting international colloquia. The individual contributors remind readers variously that collaboration (between writers, between text and image) was part and parcel of medieval cultural production that sees its more modern face in collaborations between translator and author, co-authoring, or the teaching of Shakespeare via hypertext projects. But the richness of current modes of collaboration is usefully counterbalanced by the second meaning of collaboration – the siding with the enemy. Mark Rawlinson's essay on the “Collaborationist Imagination” of Francis Stuart and Henry Williamson, and Tony Kushner's piece on British collaboration against the Roma people among those who are anti-fascist are strong reminders that collaboration at the level of the status quo often militates against those of the wrong race, gender or class. This volume is therefore a useful reminder about the alleged indeterminacy of meanings and the positive weight of critical collaborations to combat complacent political correctness.
