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Title:
Medievalisms in the postcolonial world : the idea of "the Middle Ages" outside Europe / edited by Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
vi, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Medievalism.
Postcolonialism.
Middle Ages--Study and teaching (Higher)
Postcolonialism--Study and teaching (Higher)
Middle Ages in literature.
Europe--Intellectual life.--Intellectual life.
Europe--Public opinion.--Public opinion.
Europe--Foreign public opinion.
Other Authors:
Davis, Kathleen, 1952-
Altschul, Nadia.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Response: Africa and the signs of medievalism / Simon Gikandi. An enchanted mirror for the capitalist self : the Germania in British India / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- "Most gentle indeed, but most virile" : the medievalist pacifism of George Arnold Wood / Louise D'Arcens -- Response: Historicism and its supplements : a note on a predicament shared by medieval and postcolonial studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- "Reconquista" and the "three religion Spain" in Latin American thought / Hernán G.H. Taboada -- Medievalism, colonialism, orientalism : Japan's modern identity in Natsume Soseki's Maboroshi no tate and kairo-ko / Haruko Momma -- Crossing history, dis-orienting the Orient : Amin Maalouf's uses of the "medieval" / Hamid Bahri and Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Response: Working through medievalisms / Kathleen Davis -- Andrés Bello and the Poem of the Cid : Latin America, occidentalism, and the foundations of Spain's "national philology" / Nadia Altschul -- Postcolonial gothic : the medievalism of America's "national" cathedrals / Elizabeth Emery -- An American in Paris : Charles Homer Haskins at the Paris Peace Conference / Heather Blurton -- Response: Medievalism and the making of nations / Michelle R. Warren -- African medievalisms : caste as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma's Suns of independence and Monnew / Sylvie Kandé -- A clash of medieval cultures : Amerindians and conquistadors in the thought of Wilson Harris / Kofi Campbell -- Medieval studies and the voice of conscience in twentieth-century South Africa / Victor Houliston -- Response: Africa and the signs of medievalism / Simon Gikandi.
Series:
Rethinking theory.
ISBN:
0801893208 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801893209 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)300982203
LCCN:
2009002886
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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