Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic
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Introduction: Creole Medievalism and Settler Postcolonial Studies
Part 1. The Coloniality of Hispanic American Philological Knowledge
1. The Global Standards of Intellectual and Disciplinary Historiography
2. Taken for Indians: “Native” Philology and Creole Culture Wars
Part 2. Metropolitan Philology and the Settler Creole Scholar
3. National Epic Denied: European Assertions of the Lack of a Spanish Epic
4. Andrés Bello and the Foundations of Spanish National Philology
Part 3. Medievalist Occidentalism for Spanish America
5. Defining the Spanish American National Epic and Other Occidentalist Resistances
6. The Spanish Orient in Bello’s Spanish American Occidentalism
Coda
Bibliography
Index
“Geographies of Philological Knowledge forges a compelling narrative of colonial knowledge production that brings together fields usually kept separate—medieval studies, Latin American studies, and postcolonial studies. Nadia R. Altschul remedies the scholarly oversights that have left Spain, criollos, and Amerindians alike out of influential narratives of intellectual history. In this highly readable monograph, Altschul makes philology’s global designs patently visible.”
Modern Language Association: MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
Honorable Mention
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature | Romance Languages
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