Beyond imagined communities : reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America / edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen.
Essays from a meeting of Latin American scholars held in the spring of 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The historians. Forms of communication, political spaces, and cultural identities in the creation of Spanish American nations / François-Xavier Guerra -- Argentine counterpoint : rise of the nation, rise of the state / Tulio Halperín Donghi -- Letters and salons : women reading and writing the nation / Sarah C. Chambers -- Student culture and nation-state formation / Andrew Kirkendall -- The Critics. Scenes of reading : imagining nations/romancing history / Fernando Unzueta -- The nation in ruins : archaeology and the rise of the nation / Sara Castro-Klarén -- An amnesic nation : the erasure of indigenous pasts by Uruguayan expert knowledges / Gustavo Verdesio -- Showcases of consumption : historical panoramas and universal expositions -- Beatriz González-Stephan.
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