Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
Publication Year: 2009
Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
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p. iii-iii
Contents
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pp. v-vi
Acknowledgments
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pp. vii-viii
This book was born out of the activities and experiences of a working group within the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Created in 2004 as "Latin America in the Nineteenth Century" and continuing through the 2006-2007 academic year, this group held regular meetings and brought scholars from across the United States to give talks on themes that appear throughout this volume...
Introduction
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pp. 1-8
In Latin America, national origins and national histories began with independence. Independence was nation building, or the beginning of the process of nation building, as could be seen one hundred years later in the displays of centennial celebrations of independence...
Part I. Lasting Impressions
Chapter 1. Foundational Images of the Nation in Latin America
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pp. 11-31
Nation and nationalism have made their mark on scholarship in the most divergent disciplines, fueling debates that have focused on connections to literature, history, memory, narrative, ethnicity, sexual identity, gender, and culture. Scholars of visual arts and communication studies have also actively engaged in these debates. Indeed, few and far between are the academic disciplines that have not been affected by conversations on nation and nationalism...
Chapter 2. Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations, The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture
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pp. 32-58
By 6 December 1779, the deal had been sealed. After sitting inactive for more than a dozen years in the dark, dank basement of the University of C�rdoba, the first and only printing press of the Cordoban Jesuits was unearthed and packed up to make the journey over to Buenos Aires. When the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America in 1767, the press had only been in use for a year, producing materials for the acclaimed Colegio de Monserrat...
Chapter 3. Novels, Newspapers, and Nation, The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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pp. 59-78
Serial novels constitute the majority of narrative fiction written in Mexico from the 1840s to the 1870s. While in literary histories these novels are often relegated to a category of inferior literature, I argue that these texts functioned as important instruments for the construction and dissemination of national models, and thus served as a fundamental tool in the early phases of the nation-building process in Mexico.1...
Chapter 4. Toikove Ñane Retã! Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867–1868
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pp. 79-97
By the early months of 1867, writing was a difficult task in the Paraguayan encampment of Paso Puc�. The Brazilian warships that blockaded the R�o Paraguay, the single viable trade artery in a landlocked country, exacerbated the privations of warfare. Paper and ink, among many other things imported, were scarce. The Paraguayan army only a year before had turned this sparse, dusty elevation along a grove of orange trees into a bustling military headquarters...
Part II. Cultures on Display
Chapter 5. Forms of Historic Imagination, Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela
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pp. 101-132
Clio’s ClosetThe relationships between the written word and visual culture throughout the nineteenth century were complex. They shared symbolic spaces, mobilized didactic forces, sought to delineate their respective domains, and fought over clientele...
Chapter 6. Anything Goes, Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
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pp. 133-149
Carnival is the time of year reserved specifically in the public life of Latin America for transgressive activities. Carnival happens during three main, "fat" days that are always a Sunday through Tuesday determined by the date of Easter, which must fall between 22 March and 26 April. Carnival Sunday is seven weeks before Easter Sunday...
Chapter 7. Performing the Porfiriato, Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power
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pp. 150-174
A president comes to power under questionable circumstances with the support of conservative forces in Mexico and abroad. Pro-business and other major newspapers publish editorials in the United States that hail the newly-elected leader as a friend of progress, while in Mexico the political Left questions his legitimacy...
Part III. Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations
Chapter 8. The Imponderable and the Permissible, Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucat�n Peninsula
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pp. 177-201
During the second half of the nineteenth century, a specter haunted devout Mexicans: the specter of liberalism. Yet another revolution had taken place in 1876, but no one knew what it meant for the long run...
Chapter 9. Birds of a Feather, Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality
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pp. 202-226
Carlos Monsiv�is has attributed the invention of homosexuality to a 1901 police raid on a Mexico City ball in which forty-one men, many of whom were dressed as women, were arrested for indecency.1 The sensational press that these arrests provoked, including broadsides by the popular engraver and lithographer Jos� Guadalupe Posada, publicly disclosed and disseminated the concept of the abject, effeminate invert...
Chapter 10. Unveiling the Mask of Modernity, A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of Jos� Mart�
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pp. 227-245
On the cover of the 1840 French translation of Hieronymus Fracastorius’s poem “Syphilis,” a vignette features a masked woman with her handsome courtier kneeling in front of her.1 From the side angle, only a spectator could see that beneath the masked face of the beautiful woman lies the disease and corruption of the prostitute...
Chapter II. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America
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pp. 246-270
Ideas of construction, building, and foundation are recurrent in the study of nineteenth-century Latin America. The processes of independence and the implementation of republicanism are generally presented under the positive light of agglutination and progress...
Contributors
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pp. 271-273
Index
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pp. 275-285
E-ISBN-13: 9780826516671
Print-ISBN-13: 9780826516657
Print-ISBN-10: 0826516653
Page Count: 312
Publication Year: 2009
