Building nineteenth-century Latin America : re-rooted cultures, identities, and nations / edited by William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos González Espitia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acree, William G., Jr.

González Espitia, Juan Carlos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

History.

Popular culture.

Nationalism.

Publishers and publishing.

Latin America--History--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Publishers and publishing--Latin America--History--19th century.

National characteristics, Latin American.

Nationalism--Latin America--History--19th century.

Popular culture--Latin America--History--19th century.

Gender identity--Latin America--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.

Summary:

How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.

Contents:

Foundational images of the nation in Latin America / Hugo Achugar

Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture / William G. Acree Jr.

Novels, newspapers, and nation : the beginnings of serial fiction in nineteenth-century Mexico / Amy E. Wright

Toikove ñane retã! : republican nationalism at the battlefield crossings of print and speech in wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 / Michael Kenneth Huner

Forms of historic imagination : visual culture, historiography, and the tropes of war in nineteenth-century Venezuela / Beatriz González-Stephan

Anything goes : carnivalesque transgressions in nineteenth-century Latin America / John Charles Chasteen

Performing the Porfiriato : Federico Gamboa and the negotiation of power / Stuart A. Day

The imponderable and the permissible : caste wars, culture wars, and Porfirian piety in the Yucatán Peninsula / Terry Rugeley

Birds of a feather : pollos and the nineteenth-century prehistory of Mexican homosexuality / Christopher Conway

Unveiling the mask of modernity : a critical gendered perspective of Amistad Funesta and the early chronicles of José Martí / Patricia Lapolla Swier

A brief syphilography of nineteenth-century Latin America / Juan Carlos Gonzaléz Espitia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826516657

0826516653

9780826516664

0826516661

OCLC:

265088791