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This is the first volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms. It examines “the Middle Ages” and its uses in Iberoamerica: the Spanish and Portuguese American postcolonies. It is an especially timely topic as scholars in neomedievalism studies become increasingly conscious that the field has different trajectories outside Europe and beyond the English-speaking world. The collection provides needed alternatives to the by-now standardized understanding of neomedievalism as allied to nationalism, nostalgia, xenophobia, origin stories, elitism, and white Christian identity. It dislocates the field from its established trends and finds generative, yet unexplored examples of neomedievalism: political, religious, literary, and gendered. The volume will be of interest to established scholars of neomedievalism studies, to scholars of Latin America, and to the new and growing generation of students and colleagues interested in truly global neomedievalist studies.

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Author:   Nadia R. Altschul (University of Glasgow) ,  Maria Ruhlmann
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781641894814

ISBN 10:   1641894814
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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. Maria Ruhlmann wrote her PhD at Johns Hopkins University on Jorge Luis Borges’s wide-ranging engagement with the multicultural and multiethnic medieval Iberia.

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