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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 & ndash;1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain & rsquo;s national epic, the Poem of the Cid. Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello & rsquo;s study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a & ldquo;coloniality of knowledge. & rdquo; Altschul reveals how, during |
| Analysis |
postcolonial, postcolonialism, postcoloniality, transatlantic, international, global, academic, scholarly, research, analysis, textbook, professor, college, university, geography, medieval, medievalism, history, historical, 19th century, hispanic american, creole, andres bello, life story, biography, biographical, case study, venezuela, grammar, grammarian, legal, law, politics, philological, hero narrative, spain, poem of the cid, poetry, france, england, germany, local |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bello, Andrés, 1781-1865.
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Bello, Andrés, 1781-1865 fast |
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Cid (Epic cycle) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046637
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Cid (Epic cycle) fast |
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Philology -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century
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Medievalism -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century
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Middle Ages -- Study and teaching -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century
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Postcolonialism -- Latin America
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Epic literature, Spanish -- Latin America -- History and criticism -- 19th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Epic literature, Spanish
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Medievalism
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Middle Ages -- Study and teaching
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Philology
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Postcolonialism
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226016191 |
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0226016196 |
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1280125942 |
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9781280125942 |
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