Medievalisms in the postcolonial world
Subtitle: the idea of the "Middle Ages" outside Europe
By: edited by Kathleen Davis and Nadia R. Altschul.
Contributors: Davis, Kathleen, 1952-; Altschul, Nadia.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780801893209
Subjects: Medievalism; Postcolonialism; Middle Ages -- Study and teaching (Higher); Postcolonialism -- Study and teaching (Higher); Middle Ages in literature; Europe -- Colonies -- Intellectual life; Europe -- Civilization -- Public opinion; Europe -- Foreign public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Decolonizing medieval Mexico / José Rabasa; title: An enchanted mirror for the capitalist self : the Germania in British India / Ananya Jahanara Kabir; title: Most gentle indeed, but most virile : the medievalist pacifism of George Arnold Wood / Louise D'Arcens; title: Response: Historicism and its supplements : a note on a predicament shared by medieval and postcolonial studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty; title: "Reconquista" and the "three religion Spain" in Latin American thought / Hernán G. Taboada; title: Medievalism, colonialism, orientalism : Japan's modern identity in Natsume Soseki's Maboroshi no tate and kairo-ko / Haruko Momma; title: Crossing history, dis-orienting the orient : Amin Maalouf's uses of the medieval / Francesca Canadé Sautman and Hamid Bahri; title: Response: Working through medievalisms / Kathleen Davis; title: Andrés Bello and the poem of the Cid : Latin America, occidentalism, and the foundations of Spain's national philology / Nadia Altschul; title: Postcolonial gothic : the medievalism of America's national cathedrals / Elizabeth Emery; title: An American in Paris : Charles Homer Haskins at the Paris Peace Conference / Heather Blurton; title: Response: Medievalism and the making of nations / Michelle R. Warren; title: African medievalisms : caste as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma's Suns of independence and Monnew / Sylvie Kandé; title: A clash of medieval cultures : Amerindians and conquistadors in the thought of Wilson Harris / Kofi Campbell; title: Medieval studies and the voice of conscience in twentieth-century South Africa / Victor Houliston; title: Response: Africa and the signs of medievalism / Simon Gikandi.