Nadia R. Altschul is Senior Lecturer of Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Geographies of Philological Knowledge and coeditor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World.

"[A] vital contribution to the intellectual history of Latin America. Focused on a selection of texts drawn from the century after independence, Altschul explores how the (entwined) processes/actions of medievalization and orientalization helped legitimize the region's violent subordination by global capitalism during the nineteenth century…A masterful achievement, Politics of Temporalization should become a paradigmatic must-read for students of the Iberian Atlantic and its intellectual history." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) "Nadia R. Altschul traces the mutating ways in which medieval and oriental temporalizations are used by Latin American thinkers from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries to establish hegemonic understandings of their societies, particularly their inequalities and unevennesses. In so doing, Altschul makes an original and substantial contribution to Latin American and transatlantic studies. Politics of Temporalization is exceptional." (Mary Louise Pratt, New York University) "Politics of Temporalization is a truly exciting theoretical intervention. Nadia R. Altschul not only presents a rich case study but, more broadly, shows how temporalization and orientalization are always deployed, rather than inherent in their objects. Her scholarly range is phenomenal, and she elucidates important implications for how Latin America is perceived." (Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles)

• Introduction. Iberian Premodern Conquests and Postcolonial Multiple TemporalitiesChapter 1. Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of IberiaChapter 2. Maria Graham's Premodern Chile: British Neocolonialism and Creole GovernmentChapter 3. Maria Graham's Oriental Chile: India, Spain, and Moorish Civilizational RemainsChapter 4. The Chronopolitics of Medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's ThoughtChapter 5. Facundo's Afterlife: Feudal Temporalization from Dualism to Modernization to DependencyChapter 6. Orientalism and Self-Orientalization in Domingo Sarmiento's South AmericaChapter 7. Divided by Time: Medieval Brazil in Euclides da Cunha's Os SertÕesChapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor: Gilberto Freyre's Moorish BrazilCoda. Medieval NowNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Nadia R. Altschul is Senior Lecturer of Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Geographies of Philological Knowledge and coeditor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World.

"[A] vital contribution to the intellectual history of Latin America. Focused on a selection of texts drawn from the century after independence, Altschul explores how the (entwined) processes/actions of medievalization and orientalization helped legitimize the region's violent subordination by global capitalism during the nineteenth century…A masterful achievement, Politics of Temporalization should become a paradigmatic must-read for students of the Iberian Atlantic and its intellectual history." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) "Nadia R. Altschul traces the mutating ways in which medieval and oriental temporalizations are used by Latin American thinkers from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries to establish hegemonic understandings of their societies, particularly their inequalities and unevennesses. In so doing, Altschul makes an original and substantial contribution to Latin American and transatlantic studies. Politics of Temporalization is exceptional." (Mary Louise Pratt, New York University) "Politics of Temporalization is a truly exciting theoretical intervention. Nadia R. Altschul not only presents a rich case study but, more broadly, shows how temporalization and orientalization are always deployed, rather than inherent in their objects. Her scholarly range is phenomenal, and she elucidates important implications for how Latin America is perceived." (Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles)

• Introduction. Iberian Premodern Conquests and Postcolonial Multiple TemporalitiesChapter 1. Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of IberiaChapter 2. Maria Graham's Premodern Chile: British Neocolonialism and Creole GovernmentChapter 3. Maria Graham's Oriental Chile: India, Spain, and Moorish Civilizational RemainsChapter 4. The Chronopolitics of Medieval Argentina in Domingo Sarmiento's ThoughtChapter 5. Facundo's Afterlife: Feudal Temporalization from Dualism to Modernization to DependencyChapter 6. Orientalism and Self-Orientalization in Domingo Sarmiento's South AmericaChapter 7. Divided by Time: Medieval Brazil in Euclides da Cunha's Os SertÕesChapter 8. The Shadow of the Moor: Gilberto Freyre's Moorish BrazilCoda. Medieval NowNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments