The cultural "other" in nineteenth-century travel narratives
Subtitle: how the United States and Latin America described each other
By: Miguel A. Cabanas ; with a foreword by Miguel Gomes.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism; Travelers' writings, Spanish American -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Literature, Comparative -- American and Latin American; Literature, Comparative -- Latin American and American; National characteristics, American, in literature; National characteristics, Latin American, in literature; Literature, Comparative
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Putting the world in order: John Lloyd Stephens's Narration of America; title: North of eden: romance and conquest in Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico; title: In search of "America": the rhetoric of travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Viajes en Europa, Africa i America; title: Traveling with your "type": Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz's A journey in Brazil; title: With a colt, a brush, and a pen: George Catlin's Preservation of the Indian; title: Wandering through the house: Fanny Chambers Gooch's Face to face with the Mexicans; title: Democratic degradation of the new world and Spanish American regeneration in Marti's Escenas Norteamericanas.