Collecting from the margins : material culture in a Latin American context / editor, 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : copublished by The Rowman & Littlefied Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice of collecting from a specifically Latin American perspective. Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses the continuities and discontinuities of Latin American collecting practices, both private and public, in a wide variety of literary texts and historical texts.

Contents:

Introduction / by Maria Mercedes Andrade

Sacking the botanical expedition: natural and military history in the first museum of Colombia / by Felipe Martinez-Pinzon

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

Of bayaderas, congai?s, and fumerias: "virtual" collecting in De Marsella a Tokio: sensaciones de Egipto, La India, La China y El Japon by Enrique Gomez Carrillo / by Olga Vilella

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

Postcards, autographs, and modernismo: Ruben Dario on popular collecting and textual practices / by Andrew Reynolds

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

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

Antropofagia, bricolage, collage: Oswald De Andrade, Augusto De Campos and the author as collector / by Fernando Perez Villalon

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35689-9

1-61148-734-X

OCLC:

944186180