Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801878527 ISBN 13 : 9780801878527

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

Synopsis

How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries - elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery - arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native and African origins? This book discards one answer and provides a rich collection of others. These essays began as a critique of the argument by Benedict Anderson's highly influential book "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism". Anderson traces Latin American nationalisms to local circulation of colonial newspapers and tours of duty of colonial administrators, but this book shows the limited validity of these arguments. Instead, "Beyond Imagined Communities" shows how more diverse cultural influences shaped Latin American nationalisms. Four historians examine social situations: Francois-Xavier Guerra studies various forms of political communication; Tulio Halperin Doghi, political parties; Sarah C. Chambers, the feminine world of salons; and Andrew Kirkendall, the institutions of higher education that trained the new administrators. Next, four critics examine production of cultural objects: Fernando Unzueta investigates novels; Sara Castro Klaren, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, national literary histories and international expositions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sara Castro-Klarén is professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University.

John Charles Chasteen is professor of history at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801878527
• ISBN 13: 9780801878527
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Castro-Klarén Sara, Chasteen John Charles
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