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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Main Author: Altschul, Nadia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2020]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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"--
Physical Description:viii, 252 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780812252279

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