{"product_id":"politics-of-temporalization-medievalism-and-orientalism-in-nineteenth-century-south-america-hardback-9780812252279","title":"Politics of Temporalization; Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America (Hardback) 9780812252279","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitics of Temporalization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNadia R. Altschul (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252279\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[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, \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Temporalization\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Temporalization\u003c\/i\u003e is exceptional.\" (Mary Louise Pratt, New York University) \"\u003ci\u003ePolitics of Temporalization\u003c\/i\u003e 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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA postcolonial study of the conceptualization of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America as medieval and oriental\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If Spain and Portugal were perceived as backward in the nineteenth century-still tainted, in the minds of European writers and thinkers, by more than a whiff of the medieval and Moorish-Ibero-America lagged even further behind. Originally colonized in the late fifteenth century, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil were characterized by European travelers and South American elites alike as both feudal and oriental, as if they retained an oriental-Moorish character due to the centuries-long presence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula. So, Nadia R. Altschul observes, the Scottish metropolitan writer Maria Graham (1785-1842) depicted the Chile in which she found herself stranded after the death of her sea captain husband as a premodern, precapitalist, and orientalized place that could only benefit from the free trade imperialism of the British. Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-1888), the most influential Latin American writer and statesman of his day, conceived of his own Euro-American creole class as medieval in such works as \u003ci\u003eCivilization and Barbarism: The Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga\u003c\/i\u003e (1845) and \u003ci\u003eRecollections of a Provincial Past\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), and wrote of the inherited Moorish character of Spanish America in his 1883 \u003ci\u003eConflict and Harmony of the Races in America\u003c\/i\u003e. Moving forward into the first half of the twentieth century, Altschul explores the oriental character that Gilberto Freyre assigned to Portuguese colonization in his \u003ci\u003eThe Masters and the Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), in which he postulated the \"Mozarabic\" essence of Brazil.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Temporalization\u003c\/i\u003e, Altschul examines the case of South America to ask more broadly what is at stake-what is harmed, what is excused-when the present is temporalized, when elements of \"the now\" are characterized as belonging to, and consequently imposed upon, a constructed and othered \"past.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Iberian Premodern Conquests and Postcolonial Multiple Temporalities\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of Iberia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Maria Graham's Premodern Chile: British Neocolonialism and Creole Government\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Maria Graham's Oriental Chile: India, Spain, and Moorish Civilizational Remains\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Chronopolitics of Medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's Thought\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \u003ci\u003eFacundo\u003c\/i\u003e's Afterlife: Feudal Temporalization from Dualism to Modernization to Dependency\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Orientalism and Self-Orientalization in Domingo Sarmiento's South America\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Divided by Time: Medieval Brazil in Euclides da Cunha's \u003ci\u003eOs SertÕes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor: Gilberto Freyre's Moorish Brazil\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Medieval \u003ci\u003eNow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559229255960,"sku":"9780812252279","price":58.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/politics-of-temporalization-medievalism-and-orientalism-in-nineteenth-century-south-america-hardback-9780812252279","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}