Politics of Temporalization : : Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America / / Nadia R. Altschul.

A postcolonial study of the conceptualization of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America as medieval and orientalIf 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 M...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. 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
  • Chapter 3. Maria Graham's Oriental Chile
  • Chapter 4. The Chronopolitics of Medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's Thought
  • Chapter 5. Facundo's Afterlife
  • 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 Sertõe
  • Chapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments