Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World

by Kathleen Davis

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World

Author: Kathleen Davis

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN: 9780801893209

Page: 456

View: 781

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.

Medievalisms

by Tison Pugh

Simon Gikandi, “Africa and the Signs of Medievalism,” Medievalisms in the
Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe, ed. Kathleen
Davis and Nadia Altschul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 369
–82, ...

Medievalisms

Author: Tison Pugh

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0415617278

Page: 176

View: 649

"From Harry Potter and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by one of the leading contemporary scholars of Medieval literature, and explores: - The influence of medieval cultural concepts on key authors such as Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, George Eliot and Mark Twain - The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as King Arthur and Robin Hood - The influence of the medieval on disciplines such as politics, music, film, and art. Medievalisms surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the Medieval period through to the twenty-first century"--

Postcolonial George Eliot

by Oliver Lovesey

Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul's recent edited collection, Medievalisms in the
Postcolonial World (2009), adds an “s” to “medievalism,” expanding its temporal,
spatial, and theoretical domains beyond its Eurocentric disciplinary origins and ...

Postcolonial George Eliot

Author: Oliver Lovesey

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137332123

Page: 310

View: 257

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Medievalism on the Margins

by Karl Fugelso

Altschul. In recent years the general disregard of our field toward medievalisms
outside Europe and the Anglophone world has changed noticeably. Volumes
such as the 2009 Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World, which Kathleen Davis
and ...

Medievalism on the Margins

Author: Karl Fugelso

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

ISBN: 1843844060

Page: 264

View: 564

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.

The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism

by Louise D'Arcens

... in Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of 'the Middle Ages'
Outside Europe, ed. Davis and Altschul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2009), p. 2. Nadia Altschul, 'Transfer', in Medievalism: Key Critical Terms,
ed.

The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism

Author: Louise D'Arcens

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1316546209

Page:

View: 636

Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of images and ideas that have been vital to defining 'the modern'. Bringing together local, national and global examples and tracing medievalism's unpredictable course from early modern poetry to contemporary digital culture, this authoritative Companion offers a panoramic view of the historical, aesthetic, ideological and conceptual dimensions of this phenomenon. It showcases a range of critical positions and approaches to discussing medievalism, from more 'traditional' historicist and close-reading practices through to theoretically engaged methods. It also acquaints readers with key terms and provides them with a sophisticated conceptual vocabulary for discussing the medieval afterlife in the modern.

American Medieval

by Gillian R. Overing

Other scholars have paid specific attention to more global or intercontinental
aspects of medievalism, beginning ... for example, Kathleen Davis and Nadia
Altschul's collection of essays Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea
of 'the ...

American Medieval

Author: Gillian R. Overing

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

ISBN: 3847006258

Page: 237

View: 487

This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

by Nadia R. Altschul

Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan ...

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

Author: Nadia R. Altschul

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226016196

Page: 240

View: 170

Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain’s national epic, the Poem of the Cid. Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello’s study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a “coloniality of knowledge.” Altschul reveals how, during the nineteenth century, the framework for philological scholarship established in and for core European nations—France, England, and especially Germany—was exported to Spain and Hispanic America as the proper way of doing medieval studies. She argues that the global designs of European philological scholarship are conspicuous in the domain of disciplinary historiography, especially when examining the local history of a Creole Hispanic American like Bello, who is neither fully European nor fully alien to European culture. Altschul likewise highlights Hispanic America’s intellectual internalization of coloniality and its understanding of itself as an extension of Europe. A timely example of interdisciplinary history, interconnected history, and transnational study, Geographies of Philological Knowledge breaks with previous nationalist and colonialist histories and thus forges a new path for the future of medieval studies.

Exchanges in Exoticism

by Megan Moore

... Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Kathleen Davis and Nadia
Altschul, Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Medieval Ages
” Outside Europe; Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, Postcolonial
Moves: ...

Exchanges in Exoticism

Author: Megan Moore

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 1442661372

Page: 200

View: 312

Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa

by Moha Ennaji

His research focuses on identity and ethnicity, postcolonial studies, film, and
literature. ... Dis-Orienting the Orient: Amin Maalouf's Uses of the 'Medieval'” in
Medievalisms in the Post-colonial World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa

Author: Moha Ennaji

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1317813626

Page: 312

View: 223

Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region– and in the Arab world at large – has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend – albeit a contested one – toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity, whilst discouraging, or even forbidding, minority political mobilization. The central theoretical premise of this book is that North Africa is a multicultural region, where culture is inherently linked to politics, religion, gender, and society, and a place where democracy is gradually taking root despite many political and economic hurdles. Addressing the lacuna in literature on this issue, this book opens new avenues of thought and research on diversity, linking policy based on cultural difference to democratic culture and to social justice. Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa will be of use to students and researchers with an interest in Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Political Science more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

by John H. Arnold

... <http://www.historians.org/info/aha_history/spiegel.cfm>. 56. G. Spiegel, '
Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of the Middle Ages Outside
Europe', Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 15 (2011), 617–
625. 57.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

Author: John H. Arnold

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191015016

Page: 640

View: 678

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

by M. Williams

Cohen, The Postcolonial Middle Ages,and Nadia Altschul and Kathleen Davis,
eds., Medievalisms inthe Postcolonial World: The Idea of “The Middle Ages”
Outside Europe(Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press, 2009). 25. “
Midcolonial ...

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Author: M. Williams

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137057262

Page: 207

View: 628

From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.

Postmodern Medievalisms

by Richard J. Utz

... through the postmodern and postcolonial approaches which are everywhere
enlivening the study of travel writing as a literary genre . The role of travel writing
in revealing and shaping worldviews is now coming under increased scrutiny .

Postmodern Medievalisms

Author: Richard J. Utz

Publisher: DS Brewer

ISBN: 9781843840121

Page: 239

View: 376

Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.

Politics of Temporalization

by Nadia R. Altschul

In Politics of Temporalization, Altschul examines the case of South America to ask more broadly what is at stake—what is harmed, what is excused—when the present is temporalized, when elements of "the now" are characterized as belonging ...

Politics of Temporalization

Author: Nadia R. Altschul

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 0812297202

Page: 288

View: 579

A postcolonial study of the conceptualization of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America as medieval and oriental If Spain and Portugal were perceived as backward in the nineteenth century—still tainted, in the minds of European writers and thinkers, by more than a whiff of the medieval and Moorish—Ibero-America lagged even further behind. Originally colonized in the late fifteenth century, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil were characterized by European travelers and South American elites alike as both feudal and oriental, as if they retained an oriental-Moorish character due to the centuries-long presence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula. So, Nadia R. Altschul observes, the Scottish metropolitan writer Maria Graham (1785-1842) depicted the Chile in which she found herself stranded after the death of her sea captain husband as a premodern, precapitalist, and orientalized place that could only benefit from the free trade imperialism of the British. Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-1888), the most influential Latin American writer and statesman of his day, conceived of his own Euro-American creole class as medieval in such works as Civilization and Barbarism: The Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga (1845) and Recollections of a Provincial Past (1850), and wrote of the inherited Moorish character of Spanish America in his 1883 Conflict and Harmony of the Races in America. Moving forward into the first half of the twentieth century, Altschul explores the oriental character that Gilberto Freyre assigned to Portuguese colonization in his The Masters and the Slaves (1933), in which he postulated the "Mozarabic" essence of Brazil. In Politics of Temporalization, Altschul examines the case of South America to ask more broadly what is at stake—what is harmed, what is excused—when the present is temporalized, when elements of "the now" are characterized as belonging to, and consequently imposed upon, a constructed and othered "past."

Medievalisms

by Liliana Sikorska

Howe , Nicholas 2005 “ Anglo - Saxon England and the postcolonial void ” , in :
Ananya Jahanara Kabir – Deanne ... 2005 Postcolonial approaches to the
European Middle Ages . ... Newsome , David 1997 The Victorian world picture .

Medievalisms

Author: Liliana Sikorska

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

ISBN:

Page: 229

View: 395

The continuous interest in medieval literature, history and culture, has resulted in a significant number of works on medievalism. Medievalism, however, has many faces, which range from motifs and themes loosely connected with the Middle Ages, to works set in the period. This book explores all such diverse aspects of medievalism and attempts to show the different ways in which consecutive literary periods appropriated medieval literature and culture.

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies

by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Chapter 2 presents readings of medieval texts and contexts from the perspective
of postcolonial studies . ... Chapter 3 examines contemporary medievalisms in
current discourse about ' Islam and the West ' , specifically in relation to the ...
Scholars of the Middle Ages are increasingly embracing a global context ,
seeking historical connections between different parts of the world that have long
been ...

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Author: Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Publisher: Postcolonial Literary Studies

ISBN:

Page: 188

View: 782

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial studies and medieval studies. Lisa Lampert-Weissig provides new readings of medieval texts including Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Mandeville's Travels and Guillaume de Palerne, a romance about werewolves set in Norman Sicily. In addition, she examines Walter Scott's Ivanhoe from the perspective of postcolonial medieval studies, as well contemporary novels by Salman Rushdie, Tariq Ali, Juan Goytisolo, and Amitav Ghosh.

Commerce with the Universe

by Gaurav Desai

34. between the Classical world of Greek/Roman antiquity and the early modern
and Renaissance world of Christian Europe. ... “Medievalisms Old and New: The
Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies,” American Historical
Review 103 (June 1998): ... rightly reminds us, are themselves inventions of the
colonial imaginary and thus need to be used with caution in a postcolonial
project.

Commerce with the Universe

Author: Gaurav Desai

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 0231535597

Page: 352

View: 610

Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and nonfictional, political and private, he broadens the scope of African and South Asian scholarship and inspires a more nuanced understanding of the Indian Ocean's fertile routes of exchange. Desai shows how the Indian Ocean engendered a number of syncretic identities and shaped the medieval trade routes of the Islamicate empire, the early independence movements galvanized in part by Gandhi's southern African experiences, the invention of new ethnic nationalisms, and the rise of plural, multiethnic African nations. Calling attention to lives and literatures long neglected by traditional scholars, Desai introduces rich, interdisciplinary ways of thinking not only about this specific region but also about the very nature of ethnic history and identity. Traveling from the twelfth century to today, he concludes with a look at contemporary Asian populations in East Africa and their struggle to decide how best to participate in the development and modernization of their postcolonial nations without sacrificing their political autonomy.

Medieval Boundaries

by Sharon Kinoshita

A goodstarting pointfor thisliterature is Cohen, ed.,The Postcolonial Middle Ages.
Seealso ... Several ofthe followingpoints aredeveloped ingreater detail
inKinoshita, “Discrepant Medievalisms. ... ofthismoment of historical transition
byemphasizing thepleasuresof theunruly, polyglotworld foreclosed by the events
of 1492.

Medieval Boundaries

Author: Sharon Kinoshita

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 0812202481

Page: 320

View: 367

In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland, the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh marches, and the eastern Mediterranean. In Kinoshita's reconceptualization of the geographical and cultural boundaries of the medieval West, such places become significant not only as sites of conflict but also as spaces of intense political, economic, and cultural negotiation. An important contribution to the emerging field of medieval postcolonialism, Kinoshita's work explores the limitations of reading the literature of the French Middle Ages as an inevitable link in the historical construction of modern discourses of Orientalism, colonialism, race, and Christian-Muslim conflict. Rather, drawing on recent historical and art historical scholarship, Kinoshita uncovers a vernacular culture at odds with official discourses of crusade and conquest. Situating each work in its specific context, she brings to light the lived experiences of the knights and nobles for whom this literature was first composed and—in a series of close readings informed by postcolonial and feminist theory—demonstrates that literary representations of cultural encounters often provided the pretext for questioning the most basic categories of medieval identity. Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies

The journal of medieval and early modern studies

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Columbus ' s first act in the New World is a striking repetition of the moves made
by Dante and Petrarch to seal off the Sixth Age ... Medievalisms Old and New :
The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies , ” American
Historical Review 103 ( 1998 ) : 677 – 704 . ... of modern theory of the nation and
of postcolonial 23 24 theory itself is Kathleen Davis , “ National Writing Dagenais
and ...

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Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture

by Stephanie Trigg

... given to the Arthurian world within this romanticism , or on its specific valency
within colonial and postcolonial Australia . ... I want to suggest that the transition
between the two heroines ' medievalisms reflects the changing significance ?

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture

Author: Stephanie Trigg

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 302

View: 436

" This collection opens up a new field of academic and general interest- Australian medievalism. That is, the heritage and continuing influence of medieval and gothic themes, ideas and cultural practices. Geographically removed from Europe, and distinguished by its eighteenth-century colonial settlement, Australia is a fascinating testing-ground on which to explore the cultural residues of medieval and gothic tradition. These traditions take a distinctive form, once they have been 'transported' to a different topographical setting, and a cultural context whose relationship with Europe has always been dynamic and troubled. Early colonists attempted to make the unfamiliar landscape of Australia familiar by inscribing it with European traditions- since then, a diverse range of responses and attitudes to the medieval and gothic past have been played out in Australian culture, from traditional forms of historical reconstruction through to playful postmodernist pastiche. These essays examine the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant