Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions [electronic resource] : Modern Cultures of Visuality /
Uslenghi, Alejandra.author.
Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how their modern writers experienced and narrated these events by introducing new literary forms and modernizing literary language. Following these itineraries overseas and back, Uslenghi illuminates the contested, political, and transformative relations that emerged as images and material culture travelled from sites of production to those of exhibition, exchange, and consumption.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how their modern writers experienced and narrated these events by introducing new literary forms and modernizing literary language. Following these itineraries overseas and back, Uslenghi illuminates the contested, political, and transformative relations that emerged as images and material culture travelled from sites of production to those of exhibition, exchange, and consumption.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. Modern Vistas: Latin American Photography At At the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial 2. Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition. 3. Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Modernity's Spectacle at the ParisEpilogue.
Ethnology-Latin America.
America-History.
America-Literatures.
Arts.
United States-Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Latin American Culture.
History of the Americas.
North American Literature.
Arts.
American Culture.
Social Sciences, general.