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Author:

Cabanas, Miguel A.

Title:

The cultural "other" in nineteenth-century travel narratives : how the United States and Latin America described each other / Miguel A. Cabanas ; with a foreword by Miguel Gomes.

Publisher:

Edwin Mellen Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, Spanish American--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism
Other (Philosophy) in literature
Comparative literature--American and Latin American.
Comparative literature--Latin American and American.
National characteristics, American, in literature
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
Comparative literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.

Contents:

Putting the world in order: John Lloyd Stephens's Narration of America -- North of eden: romance and conquest in Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico -- In search of "America": the rhetoric of travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Viajes en Europa, Africa i America -- Traveling with your "type": Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz's A journey in Brazil -- With a colt, a brush, and a pen: George Catlin's Preservation of the Indian -- Wandering through the house: Fanny Chambers Gooch's Face to face with the Mexicans -- Democratic degradation of the new world and Spanish American regeneration in Marti's Escenas Norteamericanas.

ISBN:

0773452400
9780773452404

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213407426

LCCN:

2008011475

Locations:

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