Javier Uriarte

The Desertmakers (eBook, PDF)

Travel, War, and the State in Latin America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the late 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay..

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317210818
• Artikelnr.: 58011607

Autorenporträt

Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
A Note on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Desertmakers
1 War in Terra Incognita: Richard Burton's Letters from the Battle-Fields
of Paraguay
2 In Praise of Deviation: W. H. Hudson's The Purple Land
3 Making Museums, Making Deserts: Francisco Moreno in Patagonia
4 The Limits of Visibility and Knowledge: Euclides da Cunha's Os sertões
Afterword: What Is Left?
Bibliography
Index