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In Politics of Temporalization, Nadia R. Altschul examines why, by whom, and to what ends certain populations, objects, and practices in nineteenth-century Ibero-America were named as living residues of the premodern Moorish past-and argues against this colonial temporalizing of "the now" as belonging to a constructed and othered "past."
List of 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: 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 SertõesChapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor: Gilberto Freyre's Moorish Brazil
Coda. Medieval
NowNotes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Nadia R. Altschul
Summary
In Politics of Temporalization, Nadia R. Altschul examines why, by whom, and to what ends certain populations, objects, and practices in nineteenth-century Ibero-America were named as living residues of the premodern Moorish past-and argues against this colonial temporalizing of "the now" as belonging to a constructed and othered "past."
