Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

European Women Pilgrims

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the travel accounts of five "lady travelers" to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women's travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women's social condition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485073
• ISBN-10: 161148507X
• Artikelnr.: 39240689

Autorenporträt

By Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Transatlantic
Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims
Chapter 2: Mapping the Unknown: European Women's Travels and the Gaze or
Enchantment Chapter 3: Romancing the Nation: European Women's Travels in
Nineteenth-Century Spanish America Chapter 4: Face-to-Face with the Other:
Women Travelers as Ethnographers Coda, At Home in the Heights Bibliography
Index About the Author