Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
Subtitle: National Territory, National Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 17, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9783319551395
Description: This text looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in 19th-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertoes as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America's first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states.--
Notes: Source title: Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative: National Territory, National Literature (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)