Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870: Volume 2

Herausgeber: Peluffo, Ana; Briggs, Ronald

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Produktbeschreibung

"The rendering and memory of the Paraguayan War was from its very beginning a conflictive endeavor. What historians have called the "first modern war" in the region was an overwhelming experience that defied its protagonists' ability to reconcile its violence with the ideals of an incipient national identity. It was also one of the first photographed conflicts worldwide, which, on the one hand, provided new access to the war experience to an extended audience, and, on the other, zeroed in on the voids and silences of the representations of the war. In this essay, I first study the unease in depicting and remembering the conflict, focusing on press coverage and Josâe Ignacio Garmendia's memories. I then pause at some of the photographs taken by the studio Bate & Ca. and reflect on their power to disturb, move, and evoke the violence of war. I argue that these are images that demand an active gaze, calling on the viewer to complete that which is not being shown"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781009169455
• ISBN-10: 1009169459
• Artikelnr.: 63982848

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Aesthetics of Disorder: 1. The Paraguayan War imagined Candela Marini
2. Networks of New World Authority Ronald Briggs
3. Artisans and Affective Labor Brendan Lanctot
4. Reading (In) the Streets William Acree
5. Publicity and Print Culture José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
6. Literature and Political Corruption Ariel de la Fuente
7. Emotions and Politics in the Era of Caudillos Ricardo Salvatore
Part II. Affective Communities: 8. Imagining Popular Sovereignty Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
9. The Arithmetic of Sentiment Shelley Garrigan
10. Costumbrismo as Political Ethnography Lina del Castillo
11. The Disruptive Andean Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela
12. The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing Corina Zeltsman
13. Hygiene, Good Manners and the Public Body Juan Carlos González Espitia
14. Intimacy, Identity and the Nation Lee Skinner
Part III. Intersectional Subjectivities: 15. Shame, Enslavement, and Identity David Luis-Brown
16. Narratives from Enslavement Lucía Stecher
17. Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence Pilar Egüez Guevara and Michelle Patiño-Flores
18. Childhood, Race and Gender Ana Peluffo
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brazil César Braga-Pinto
Part IV. Transoceanic Consciousness: 20. Women's Travel Writing Francesca Denegri
21. Hydraulic Modernity Carlos Abreu Mendoza
22. History and the Transatlantic Imagination Karen Racine
23. Humboldt's Aesthetic Populations Stefan H. Uhlig
24. Argentine Darwinists Leila Gómez.