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Title:

Building nineteenth-century Latin America : re-rooted cultures, identities, and nations / edited by William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos González Espitia.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Vanderbilt University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Latin America--History--19th century.
Latin America--Intellectual life--19th century.
Publishers and publishing--Latin America--History--19th century.
National characteristics, Latin American.
Nationalism--Latin America--History--19th century.
Popular culture--Latin America--History--19th century.
Gender identity--Latin America--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Acree, William G.
González Espitia, Juan Carlos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foundational images of the nation in Latin America / Hugo Achugar -- Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture / William G. Acree Jr. -- Novels, newspapers, and nation : the beginnings of serial fiction in nineteenth-century Mexico / Amy E. Wright -- Toikove ñane retã! : republican nationalism at the battlefield crossings of print and speech in wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 / Michael Kenneth Huner -- Forms of historic imagination : visual culture, historiography, and the tropes of war in nineteenth-century Venezuela / Beatriz González-Stephan -- Anything goes : carnivalesque transgressions in nineteenth-century Latin America / John Charles Chasteen -- Performing the Porfiriato : Federico Gamboa and the negotiation of power / Stuart A. Day -- The imponderable and the permissible : caste wars, culture wars, and Porfirian piety in the Yucatán Peninsula / Terry Rugeley -- Birds of a feather : pollos and the nineteenth-century prehistory of Mexican homosexuality / Christopher Conway -- Unveiling the mask of modernity : a critical gendered perspective of Amistad Funesta and the early chronicles of José Martí / Patricia Lapolla Swier -- A brief syphilography of nineteenth-century Latin America / Juan Carlos Gonzaléz Espitia.

ISBN:

0826516661 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826516664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826516653 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826516657 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)265088791

LCCN:

2008045633

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)