{"product_id":"medievalisms-in-the-postcolonial-world-the-idea-of-the-middle-ages-outside-europe-rethinking-theory-9780801893209","title":"Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World The Idea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stimulating read. Choice 2010 I highly recommend this book to both scholars of medievalism and colonialism, as well as scholars in other fields, such as history and anthropology. The volume is smart, persuasive, engaging, and provocative, and the contributors engage in a wide range of theoretical debates. -- Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler Studies in Medievalism 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Idea of \"the Middle Ages\" Outside Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Locations of History and Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Decolonizing Medieval Mexico\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. An Enchanted Mirror for the Capitalist Self: The \u003ci\u003eGermania\u003c\/i\u003e in British India\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. \"Most Gentle Indeed, But Most Virile\": The Medievalist Pacifism of George Arnold Wood\u003cbr\u003eResponse. Historicism and Its Supplements: A Note on a Predicament Shared by Medieval and Postcolonial Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Repositioning Orientalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. \"Reconquista\" and the \"Three Religion Spain\" in Latin American Thought\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Medievalism—Colonialism—Orientalism: Japan's Modern Identity in Natsume Soseki's \u003ci\u003eMaboroshi no Tate and Kairo-ko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Crossing History, Dis-Orienting the Orient: Amin Maalouf's Uses of the \"Medieval\"\u003cbr\u003eResponse. Working Through Medievalisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Nation and Foundations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Andrés Bello and the \u003ci\u003ePoem of the Cid\u003c\/i\u003e: Latin America, Occidentalism, and the Foundations of Spain's \"National Philology\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Postcolonial Gothic: The Medievalism of America's \"National\" Cathedrals\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. An American in Paris: Charles Homer Haskins at the Paris Peace Conference\u003cbr\u003eResponse. Medievalism and the Making of Nations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Geography and Temporality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. African Medievalisms: Caste as a Subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma's\u003ci\u003e Suns of Independence \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Monnew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. A Clash of Medieval Cultures: Amerindians and Conquistadors in the Thought of Wilson Harris\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Medieval Studies and the Voice of Conscience in Twentieth-Century South Africa\u003cbr\u003eResponse. Africa and the Signs Medievalism\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527632888151,"sku":"9780801893209","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801893209.jpg?v=1731868630","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medievalisms-in-the-postcolonial-world-the-idea-of-the-middle-ages-outside-europe-rethinking-theory-9780801893209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}