Politics of temporalization : medievalism and orientalism in nineteenth-century South America /

"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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Altschul, Nadia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Medievalism > South America > History > 19th century.
Orientalism > South America > History > 19th century.
Médiévisme > Amérique du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Orientalisme > Amérique du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
Civilization
Civilization > Islamic influences
Civilization > Medieval influences
Medievalism
Orientalism
South America > Civilization > Medieval influences.
South America > Civilization > Islamic influences.
South America > Civilization > History > 19th century.
South America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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