Geographies of philological knowledge
Subtitle: postcoloniality and the Transatlantic national epic
By: Nadia R. Altschul
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226016214
Subjects: Study and teaching; History and criticism; Philology; Medievalism; Spanish Epic literature; Cid (Epic cycle); Postcolonialism; Middle Ages; History
Description: This work examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the 19th-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative 'The Poem of the Cid'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Creole medievalism and settler postcolonial studies; title: The coloniality of Hispanic American philological knowledge; title: The global standards of intellectual and disciplinary historiography; title: Taken for Indians: "native" philology and Creole culture wars; title: Metropolitan philology and the settler Creole scholar; title: National epic denied: European assertions of the lack of a Spanish epic; title: Andrés Bello and the foundations of Spanish national philology; title: Medievalist occidentalism for Spanish America; title: Defining the Spanish American national epic and other occidentalist resistances; title: The Spanish Orient in Bello's Spanish American occidentalism; title: Coda.