Collecting from the margins : material culture in a Latin American context / edited by María Mercedes Andrade.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrade, María Mercedes, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collectors and collecting--Latin America.

Collectors and collecting.

Material culture--Latin America.

Material culture.

Collectors and collecting in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefied Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Contents:

Introduction / María Mercedes Andrade

Sacking the botanical expedition: natural and military history in the first museum of Colombia / Felipe Martínez-Pinzón

An "immense museum" or an "immense tomb?": war and the rhetoric of continuity in the writings of Francisco Moreno / Javier Uriarte

Of bayaderas, congaïs, and fumerías: "virtual" collecting in De Marsella á Tokio: sensaciones de Egipto, La India, La China y El Japón by Enrique Gómez Carrillo / Olga Vilella

"That heteroclite assembly": collecting, modernity, and "the savage mind" in De sobremesa / María Mercedes Andrade

Postcards, autographs, and modernismo: Rubén Darío on popular collecting and textual practices / Andrew Reynolds

Delmira Agustini, gender, and the poetics of collecting / Shelley Garrigan

"I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people's struggle": Pablo Neruda as collector, translator, and poet / Kelly Austin

Antropofagia, bricolage, collage: Oswald De Andrade, Augusto De Campos and the author as collector / Fernando Pérez Villalón

From the space of the wunderkammer to Macondo's Wonder rooms: the collection of marvels in Cien Años de Soledad / Jerónimo Arellano

Collecting revisited (and left behind): the treasure chambers in Ruy Guerra's Eréndira and Portugal S.A. / Ilka Kressner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Collecting from the margins.

ISBN:

9781611487336

1611487331

OCLC:

932175082