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03581aam a2200457 i 4500 001 473E56760CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 190715s2019 inuab b 001 0 spa 010 $a 2019027037 020 $a 1557538778 020 $a 9781557538772 035 $a (OCoLC)1108787238 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NHM $d GZN $d UKMGB $d BKL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a pogg--- 050 00 $a F3741.G2 $b M39 2019 082 00 $a 986.6/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Mayorga, Esteban, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Galapagos : $b Imaginarios de la evolucion textual en las islas encantadas / $c Esteban Mayorga. 264 1 $a West Lafayette, Indiana : $b Purdue University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a ix, 203 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; $v volume 77 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a La primera cronica colonial de unas islas imaginarias: Carta a su majestad de Tomas de Berlanga -- Metahistoria en el archipielago, la primera ficcion colonial: Historia de Los Incas de Sarmiento de Gamboa -- La fluidez de la seleccion natural: The Voyage of the Beagle de Charles Darwin -- La relacion entre el Transcendentalismo y las Galapagos: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles de Herman Melville -- Los piratas en Galapagos y la formacion del estado-nacion: El pirata del Guayas de Manuel Bilbao -- La construccion de la identidad galapaguense y ecuatoriana: Galapagos a la vista de Bolivar Naveda -- La fuerza del mercado y la perspectiva ecocritica: Galapagos: Huellas en el paraiso de Hugo Idrovo. 520 $a "This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galapagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Galapagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory"-- $c Provided by publisher. 540 $a British Library not licensed to copy $c 0. $5 Uk 651 0 $a Galapagos Islands $x History. 651 0 $a Galapagos Islands $x In literature. 651 0 $a Galapagos Islands $x Description and travel. 650 0 $a National characteristics, Ecuadorian. 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a National characteristics, Ecuadorian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033410 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 651 7 $a Galapagos Islands. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219610 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mayorga, Esteban, 1977- $t Galapagos $d West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, 2019. $z 9781612496085 $w (DLC) 2019027038 830 0 $a Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; $v v. 77. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=473E56760CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search