Transatlantic travels in nineteenth-century Latin America : European women pilgrims / Adriana Méndez Rodenas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Méndez Rodenas, Adriana.

Series:

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women travelers--Latin America--History--19th century.

Women travelers.

Women--Travel--Europe--Latin America--History--19th century.

Women.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Women--Travel.

History.

Latin America--Social conditions--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Social life and customs--19th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, copublished with Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Summary:

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid "lady travelers" who ventured into the geography of the New World-Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean-at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806-1882), Maria Graham (1785-1842), Flora Tristan (1803-1844), Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865), and Adela Breton (1849-1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women's travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, to history and ethnography. Women's social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women's travel writing ushers a new vision of post-Independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, and suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Transatlantic travels in nineteenth-century Latin America : European women pilgrims

Mapping the unknown : European women's travels and the gaze of enchantment

Romancing the nation : European women's travels in nineteenth-century Spanish America

Face-to-face with the other : women travelers as ethnographers

Coda, at home in the heights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.

ISBN:

9781611485073

161148507X

9781611485080

1611485088

OCLC:

856054383

Publisher Number:

99957553207