Private Topographies
Subtitle: Space, Subjectivity and Political Change in Modern Latin America
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781403967480
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Technology; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Surveying; Space and time in literature; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Creoles in literature; 19th century; Latin American prose literatur; Latin American prose literature
First sentence: As the two examples evoked at the beginning-Poles replacing windows and Sarmiento chopping down the tree blocking the view from his window-suggest, periods of quick transition are powerful implacing events.
Description: "In Private Topographies, Marzena Grzegorczyk identifies and analyzes the types of postcolonial subjectivity prevalent among the Creole (Euro-American) ruling classes in post-independence, nineteenth-century Latin America. The book takes an original scholarly approach in linking together political transitions and "implacements"--Attempts individuals make to reorder the space around them. By looking at cartographies of states and regions, the structure of towns, and appearance and layout of homes in literature from Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil from this nineteenth century period of transition, Grzegorczyk sheds new light on the ways a culture remakes itself and the mechanisms through which subjectivities shift during periods of political change."--Jacket.