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Davis, Kathleen, and Nadia Altschul, eds. Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of 'the Middle Ages' Outside Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
A collection of essays exploring the intersection of medievalism and postcolonialism. The work as a whole argues for the utility of the medieval/modern binary as a framing lens by which to deepen an understanding of postcolonial theory, as well as the various pertinences of postcolonial theory for understandings of “the medieval” situated outside Euro-American contexts. The essays consider sociohistorical sites in Africa, the Americas, East Asia, South Asia, and West Asia, and engage discussions in fields such as medieval history and postcolonial studies.
