Geographies of philological knowledge : postcoloniality and the Transatlantic national epic / Nadia R. Altschul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altschul, Nadia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cid (Epic cycle).

Bello, Andrés, 1781-1865.

Bello, Andrés.

Philology--Latin America--History--19th century.

Philology.

Medievalism--Latin America--History--19th century.

Medievalism.

Middle Ages--Study and teaching--Latin America--History--19th century.

Middle Ages.

Postcolonialism--Latin America.

Postcolonialism.

Epic literature, Spanish--Latin America--History and criticism--19th century.

Epic literature, Spanish.

Middle Ages--Study and teaching.

History.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]

Contents:

Creole medievalism and settler postcolonial studies

The coloniality of Hispanic American philological knowledge

The global standards of intellectual and disciplinary historiography

Taken for Indians: "native" philology and Creole culture wars

Metropolitan philology and the settler Creole scholar

National epic denied: European assertions of the lack of a Spanish epic

Andrés Bello and the foundations of Spanish national philology

Medievalist occidentalism for Spanish America

Defining the Spanish American national epic and other occidentalist resistances

The Spanish Orient in Bello's Spanish American occidentalism

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and index.

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2012

ISBN:

9780226016214

0226016218

0040020637358

OCLC:

730906400

Publisher Number:

40020637358