Private Topographies : Space, Subjectivity and Political Change in Modern Latin America / by M. Grzegorczyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grzegorczyk, Marzena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Latin American Culture.

Literary History.

Local Subjects:

Latin American Culture.

Literature.

Literary History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Private Topographies, Grzegorczyk identifies and analyzes the types of postcolonial subjectivity prevalent among the Creole (Euro-American) ruling classes in post-independence, nineteenth-century century Latin America as articulated through their relation to their surroundings. Exactly how did creole elites change their self-conception in the wake of independence? In what ways and why did they feel compelled to restructure their personal space? What contradictions did they respond to? Where and how were the boundaries between public and private constructed? How were the categories of race and gender relevant to this process? For the first time, this book links together political transitions (the end of the colonial period in Latin America) with "implacements" - attempts that people make to reorganize the space around them. By looking at cartographies of states and regions, the structure of towns, and appearance and lay-out of homes in literature from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil from this nineteenth century period of transition, Grzegorczyk sheds new light on the ways a culture remakes itself and the mechanisms through which subjectivities shift during periods of political change.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Private Topographies

Transition as a Culture of Event

Private Topographies

1 Travel, Experience, and Reflection: Readerly Topography in El Periquillo Sarniento

Colonial Identifications

Model(ing) Citizens

To Be" or "To Appear"? An Experiment in Representation

The Anti-Aesthetics of Space

The Epistemology of Blurred Vision

Topography of Reflection

2 Theatricality: On Creole Agency in Sarmiento's Trilogy Civilizacióny barbarie

Topography as Discipline

A Museum of Wounds

The Synthesizing Subject

Creator of Images

On Form: Politically, Discursively

3 Lost Space: Juana Manuela Gorriti's Postcolonial Geography

A Postcolonial Vita

The Abandoned House

Negative Spatiality

On Collecting

4 Building in 1900: An Agoraphobic Tale

Ambiguity

This Old House

Narrating the Post-Heroic

Delineations: On Building and Writing

The Vertigo of Privacy

The Economy of Agoraphobia

5 Eclipse of Reason: Euclides da Cunha's "Improper City

Between the Body and the Map

Process Against the City

Urban Confrontations

On Agitated Structures

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-183) and index.

ISBN:

9786611364076

9781281364074

128136407X

9781403978639

1403978638

OCLC:

560464074