Chapter 2. The Criollo Invention of the Middle Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iv
3. List of Illustrations v
4. Chapter 1. Postcolonizing Neomedievalism: An Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. The Criollo Invention of the Middle Ages 19
6. Chapter 3. A Militant and Peasant-Based Medieval History in Brazil: Fanning the Spark of Hope 41
7. Chapter 4. Neomedievalism and the Hagiography of Valdemiro Santiago: Neopentecostal Sanctification 63
8. Chapter 5. The “Middle Ages” in the Brazilian Presidential Elections of 2018: The Left, the Right, and the Centre 81
9. Chapter 6. Averroes in Mid-Colonial and Inter-Imperial Cordoba 101
10. Chapter 7. Hypermedievalizing and De-Medievalizing Dante: Leopoldo Lugones’s and Jorge Luis Borges’s Rewritings of Inferno V 121
11. Chapter 8. Borges and Kennings 139
12. Chapter 9. Memory, Desire, and Sexual Identity in Manuel Mujica Lainez’s El unicornio 155
13. Chapter 10. Rewriting and Visualizing the Cid: The Reconstruction of Medieval Gender and Race in Argentinian Graphic Novels 173