Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America

, by Acree, William G., Jr.; Espitia, Juan Carlos Gonzalez

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ISBN: 9780826516664 | 0826516661
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/15/2010

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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.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Lasting Impressions
Foundational Images of the Nation in Latin America	p. 11
Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations: The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture	p. 32
Novels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico	p. 59
Toikove &Ntild;ane Ret&atild;! Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868	p. 79
Cultures on Display
Forms of Historic Imagination: Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela	p. 101
Anything Goes: Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America	p. 133
Performing the Porfiriato: Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power	p. 150
Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations
The Imponderable and the Permissible: Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucatán Peninsula	p. 177
Birds of a Feather: Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality	p. 202
Unveiling the Mask of Modernity: A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of José Martí	p. 227
A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America	p. 246
Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 275
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