Geographies of philological knowledge : postcoloniality and the Transatlantic national epic /
Altschul, Nadia.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-239) and index.
Creole medievalism and settler postcolonial studies -- The coloniality of Hispanic American philological knowledge -- The global standards of intellectual and disciplinary historiography -- Taken for Indians: "native" philology and Creole culture wars -- Metropolitan philology and the settler Creole scholar -- National epic denied: European assertions of the lack of a Spanish epic -- Andrés Bello and the foundations of Spanish national philology -- Medievalist occidentalism for Spanish America -- Defining the Spanish American national epic and other occidentalist resistances -- The Spanish Orient in Bello's Spanish American occidentalism -- Coda.
Bello, Andrés, 1781-1865.
Cid (Epic cycle)
Philology
Medievalism
Middle Ages
Postcolonialism
Epic literature, Spanish