Synopses & Reviews
Much theoretical and historical work engaged with the question of the "postcolonial" is built upon an imagined, unified premodern "Middle Ages" in Europe. One of the results of this has been that in recent years scholars in medieval and early modern studies have been critically assessing the uses of postcolonial and subaltern theoretical perspectives in their fields, and considering what their periods have to say to postcolonial theorists. This book offers a series of original essays that explore with specificity the methodological, textual, cultural, and historiographic moves required for postcolonial engagements with premodern times.
About the Author
Patricia Clare Ingham is Associate Professor of English and Director of Womens and Gender Studies at Lehigh University.
Michelle R. Warren is Associate Professor of French and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami.
Table of Contents
Postcolonial Modernity and the Rest of History--Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren *
Around Disciplines * Post-Philology--Michelle R. Warren * Contrapuntal Histories--Patricia Clare Ingham * Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early Modern Expansion--Barbara Fuchs *
In Place * The Romance of MiscegeNation: Negotiating Identities in
La Fille du comte de Pontieu --Sharon Kinoshita * Tales of the Ancients: Colonial Werewolves and the Mapping of Postcolonial Ireland--Catherine E. Karkov * Spirituality and Colonial Governmentality: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises in Europe and Abroad--J. Michelle Molina * The Question of Occidentalism in Early Modern Morocco--Nabil I. Matar *
Through Time * The Ghost of Leo Africanus from the English to the Irish Renaissance--Bernadette Andrea * Postcolonial Courtiers: Performing French Classicism from Versailles to Nouvelle-France--Jean-Vincent Blanchard * Antipodean Idylls: An Early Australian Translation of Tennysons Medievalism--Louise DArcens * History and Legend: The Exile and the Turk--David Lawton