Altschul / Ruhlmann Iberoamerican Neomedievalisms

“The Middle Ages” and Its Uses in Latin America
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-033-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 227 Seiten

Reihe: Arc Medievalist

The first ever volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms that examines the meanings and uses of “the Middle Ages” in Iberian America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altschul, Nadia R.

Ruhlmann, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Postcolonizing Neomedievalism, by Nadia R. Altschul Chapter 1: The Criollo Invention of the Middle Ages, by Hernán G. H. Taboada Chapter 2: Fanning the Spark of Hope: A Militant and Peasant-Based Medieval History in Brazil, by Mário Jorge da Motta Bastos Chapter 3: Neopentecostal Sanctification: Neomedievalism and the Hagiography of Valdemiro Santiago, by Clínio de Oliveira Amaral Chapter 4: The Left, the Right, and the Middle: The “Middle Ages” in the Brazilian Presidential Elections of 2018, by Luiz Guerra Chapter 5: Averroes in a Midcolonial and Inter-Imperial Cordoba, by Maria Ruhlmann Chapter 6: Hypermedievalizing and de-medievalizing Dante: Leopoldo Lugones’s and Jorge Luis Borges’s Rewritings of Inferno V, by Heather Sottong Chapter 7: Borges and Kennings, by M. J. Toswell Chapter 8: Memory, Desire and Sexual Identity in El unicornio by Manuel Mujica Lainez, by Juan Manuel Lacalle Chapter 9: Rewriting and Visualizing the Cid: The Reconstruction of Medieval Gender and Race in Argentinian Graphic Novels, by Rebecca De Souza Index

Über Autor(innen)

Altschul Nadia R.:
Nadia R. Altschul teaches at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of three monographs and co-editor of two volumes on neomedievalism. Her research focuses on postcolonial studies, and the idea and redeployment of the “Middle Ages” in Spanish America and Brazil. Ruhlmann Maria:
Maria Ruhlmann wrote her PhD at Johns Hopkins University on Jorge Luis Borges’s wide-ranging engagement with the multicultural and multiethnic medieval Iberia.