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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] vital contribution to the intellectual history of Latin America. Focused on a selection of texts drawn from the century after independence, Altschul explores how the (entwined) processes/actions of medievalization and orientalization helped legitimize the region’s violent subordination by global capitalism during the nineteenth century…A masterful achievement,
Politics of Temporalization should become a paradigmatic must-read for students of the Iberian Atlantic and its intellectual history." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
"Nadia R. Altschul traces the mutating ways in which medieval and oriental temporalizations are used by Latin American thinkers from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries to establish hegemonic understandings of their societies, particularly their inequalities and unevennesses. In so doing, Altschul makes an original and substantial contribution to Latin American and transatlantic studies.
Politics of Temporalization is exceptional." * Mary Louise Pratt, New York University *
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Politics of Temporalization is a truly exciting theoretical intervention. Nadia R. Altschul not only presents a rich case study but, more broadly, shows how temporalization and orientalization are always deployed, rather than inherent in their objects. Her scholarly range is phenomenal, and she elucidates important implications for how Latin America is perceived." * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Iberian Premodern Conquests and Postcolonial Multiple Temporalities
Chapter 1. Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of Iberia
Chapter 2. Maria Graham's Premodern Chile: British Neocolonialism and Creole Government
Chapter 3. Maria Graham's Oriental Chile: India, Spain, and Moorish Civilizational Remains
Chapter 4. The Chronopolitics of Medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's Thought
Chapter 5. Facundo's Afterlife: Feudal Temporalization from Dualism to Modernization to Dependency
Chapter 6. Orientalism and Self-Orientalization in Domingo Sarmiento's South America
Chapter 7. Divided by Time: Medieval Brazil in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
Chapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor: Gilberto Freyre's Moorish Brazil
Coda. Medieval Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
