Latin American literature in transition, 1800-1870 / edited by Ana Peluffo, Ronald Briggs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peluffo, Ana, editor.

Briggs, Ronald, 1975- editor.

Series:

Latin American literature in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Literature and society--Latin America--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 399 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870 uses affect as an analytical tool to uncover the countervailing forces that shaped Latin American literatures and cultures during the first six decades of the nineteenth century. Chapters provide perspectives on colonial violence and its representation, on the development of the national idea, on communities within and beyond the nation, and on the intersectional development of subjectivity during and after processes of cultural and political independence. This volume includes interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth-century Latin American cultures that range from visual and art history to historiography to comparative literature and the study of literary and popular print culture. This book engages with the complex and sometimes counterintuitive relationship between felt ideas of community and the political changes that shaped these affective networks and communities.

Contents:

Part I: Aesthetics of Disorder

The Paraguayan War Imagined / Candela Marini

Networks of New World Authority / Ronald Briggs

Artisans and Affective Labor / Brendan Lanctot

Reading (In) the Streets / William Acree

Publicity and Print Culture / José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra

Literature and Political Corruption / Ariel de la Fuente

Emotions and Politics in the Era of Caudillos / Ricardo Salvatore

Part II: Affective Communities

Imagining Popular Sovereignty / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

The Arithmetic of Sentiment / Shelley Garrigan

Costumbrismo as Political Ethnography / Lina del Castillo

The Disruptive Andean / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing / Corina Zeltsman

Hygiene, Good Manners and the Public Body / Juan Carlos González Espitia

Intimacy, Identity and the Nation / Lee Skinner

Part III: Intersectional Subjectivities

Shame, Enslavement, and Identity / David Luis-Brown

Narratives from Enslavement / Lucía Stecher

Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence / Pilar Egüez Guevara and Michelle Patiño-Flores

Childhood, Race and Gender / Ana Peluffo

Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brazil / César Braga-Pinto

Part IV: Transoceanic Consciousness

Women's Travel Writing / Francesca Denegri

Hydraulic Modernity / Carlos Abreu Mendoza

History and the Transatlantic Imagination / Karen Racine

Humboldt's Aesthetic Populations / Stefan H. Uhlig

Argentine Darwinists / Leila Gómez.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2023).

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ISBN:

9781009169448 (ebook)

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