Politics of temporalization : medievalism and orientalism in nineteenth-century South America / Nadia R. Altschul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altschul, Nadia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism--History--South America--19th century.

Medievalism.

Orientalism--History--South America--19th century.

Orientalism.

South America--Civilization--Medieval influences.

South America.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Nadia R. Altschul is Senior Lecturer of Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Geographies of Philological Knowledge and coeditor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World.

Summary:

"This book delves further into the politics of the medieval/modern divide and its attendant concepts of modernity, alternative modernities, and the premodern by investigating these historical boundary-crossing struggles in the Ibero-American context. The notion that Ibero-America was medieval or that the British Empire would bring modern ways of life to the Spanish American premodern backwaters was not the purview of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars but was already evident in early ethnographic and autoethnographic texts from the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Iberian premodern conquests and postcolonial multiple temporalities

Medieval belonging and Oriental otherness in figurations of Iberia

Maria Graham's premodern Chile : British neocolonialism and creole government

Maria Graham's Oriental Chile : India, Spain, and Moorish civilizational remains

The chronopolitics of medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's thought

Facundo's afterlife : feudal temporalization from dualism to modernization to dependency

Orientalism and self-orientalization in Domingo Sarmiento's South America

Divided by time : medieval Brazil in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões

The shadow of the Moor : Gilberto Freyre's Moorish Brazil

Coda : Medieval now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812297201

0812297202

OCLC:

1155411869