The cultural "other" in nineteenth-century travel narratives : how the United States and Latin America described each other /
Cabanas, Miguel A.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
Putting the world in order: John Lloyd Stephens's Narration of America -- North of eden: romance and conquest in Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico -- In search of "America": the rhetoric of travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Viajes en Europa, Africa i America -- Traveling with your "type": Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz's A journey in Brazil -- With a colt, a brush, and a pen: George Catlin's Preservation of the Indian -- Wandering through the house: Fanny Chambers Gooch's Face to face with the Mexicans -- Democratic degradation of the new world and Spanish American regeneration in Marti's Escenas Norteamericanas.
Travelers' writings, American
Travelers' writings, Spanish American
American literature
Spanish American literature
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Comparative literature.