Building nineteenth-century Latin America
Subtitle: re-rooted cultures, identities, and nations
By: edited by William G. Acree Jr., Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia.
Contributors: Acree, William G.; González Espitia, Juan Carlos.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780826516657; 9780826516664
Subjects: Publishers and publishing -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics, Latin American; Nationalism -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Gender identity -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: "How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease."--[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundational images in Latin America / Hugo Achugar; title: Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture / William G. Acree, Jr; title: Novels, newspapers, and nation : the beginnings of serial fiction in nineteenth-century Mexico / Amy E. Wright; title: Toikove ñane retã! : republican nationalism at the battlefield crossings of print and speech in wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 / Michael K. Huner; title: Forms of historic imagination : visual culture, historiography, and the tropes of war in nineteenth-century Venezuela / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan; title: Anything goes : carnivalesque transgressions in nineteenth-century America / John Charles Chasteen; title: Performing the Porfiriato : Federico Gamboa and the negotiation of power / Stuart A. Day; title: The imponderable and the permissible : caste wars, culture wars, and Porfirian piety in the Yucatan Peninsula / Terry Rugeley; title: Birds of a feather : pollos and the nineteenth-century prehistory of Mexican homosexuality / Christopher Conway; title: Unveiling the mask of modernity : a critical gendered perspective of Amistad Funesta and the early chronicles of Jose Martí / Patricia Swier; title: A brief syphilography of nineteenth-century Latin America / Juan Carlos Gonzaléz-Espitia.