Beyond imagined communities
Subtitle: reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America
By: edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen.
Contributors: Castro-Klarén, Sara.; Chasteen, John Charles, 1955-
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. 1936-; Nationalism -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Identity (Psychology) -- Latin America; Ethnicity -- Latin America; National state; Latin America -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Essays from a meeting of Latin American scholars held in the spring of 2000.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : beyond imagined communities / John Charles Chasteen. The historians. Forms of communication, political spaces, and cultural identities in the creation of Spanish American nations / François-Xavier Guerra; title: Argentine counterpoint : rise of the nation, rise of the state / Tulio Halperín-Donghi; title: Letters and salons : women reading and writing the nation / Sarah C. Chambers; title: Student culture and nation-state formation / Andrew Kirkendall. The Critics. Scenes of reading : imagining nations/romancing history in Spanish America / Fernando Unzueta; title: The nation in ruins : archaeology and the rise of the nation / Sara Castro-Klarén; title: An amnesic nation : the erasure of indigenous pasts by Uruguayan expert knowledges / Gustavo Verdesio; title: Showcases of consumption : historical panoramas and universal expositions / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephán.