Winner of the 2022 La corónica International Book Award

In Politics 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.