Winner of the 2022 La corónicaInternational Book Award:

Nadia R. Altschul

Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America

(U of Pennsylvania P, 2020)

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Nadia R. Altschul, author of Periods of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America

 

Nadia R. Altschul, a scholar of Hispanic studies, is the winner of the 2022La corónicaInternational Book Award.

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Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America (U of Pennsylvania P, 200), winner of the 2022 La corónica International Book Award

InPolitics of Temporalization, Nadia R. Altschul explores how scholars who identified as Europeans categorized themselves as modern and western, in contrast to the peoples and places of the Americas, which they depicted as living in the medieval, oriental past, in order to justify colonial domination. Examining the politics of the medieval and the oriental/Moorish in the works of Euro-American Creole writers in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, Altschul shows that we must reconsider the Anglophone notion of orientalism, taking into account Iberia’s long, colonial entanglement with North Africa and its own Moorish past.

 

Winner of the 2022 La corónica International Book Award
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