Postcolonial moves
Subtitle: medieval through modern
By: edited by Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren.
Contributors: Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958-; Warren, Michelle R., 1967-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Imperialism in literature.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Imperialism in literature.
Description: "In recent years scholars in medieval and early modern studies have been critically assessing the uses of postcolonial and subaltern theoretical perspectives in their fields, and considering what their periods have to say to postcolonial theorists. This book offers a series of original essays that explore with specificity the methodological, textual, cultural, and historiographic moves required for postcolonial engagements with pre-modern times."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Acknowledgments vii; title: Notes on Contributors ix; title: Introduction: Postcolonial Modernity and the Rest of History 1; title: Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren Part One: Around Disciplines; title: Chapter One Post-Philology 19; title: Michelle R. Warren; title: Chapter Two Contrapuntal Histories 47; title: Patricia Clare Ingham; title: Chapter Three Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early; title: Modern Expansion 71; title: Barbara Fuchs Part Two: In Place; title: Chapter Four Tales of the Ancients: Colonial Werewolves and the Mapping of Postcolonial Ireland 93; title: Catherine E. Karkov; title: Chapter Five The Romance of MiscegeNation: Negotiating Identities in La Fille du comte de Pontieu 111; title: Sharon Kinoshita; title: Chapter Six Spirituality and Colonial Governmentality: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises in Europe and Abroad 133; title: J. Michelle Molina; title: Chapter Seven The Question of Occidentalism in Early Modern Morocco 153; title: Nabil I. Matar; title: Part Three: Through Time; title: Chapter Eight History and Legend: The Exile and the Turk 173; title: David Lawton; title: Chapter Nine The Ghost of Leo Africanus from the English to the Irish Renaissance 195; title: Bernadette Andrea; title: Chapter Ten Postcolonial Courtiers: Performing French Classicism fromVersailles to Nouvelle-France 217; title: Jean- Vincent Blanchard; title: Chapter Eleven Antipodean Idylls: An Early Australian Translation of Tennyson's Medievalism 237; title: Louise D'Arcens; title: Index 257.