Description: Beyond Imagined Communities : Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Paperback by Chasteen, John Charles (EDT); Castro-Klaren, Sara (EDT), ISBN 0801878535, ISBN-13 9780801878534, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
How did the nationalisms of Latin Americas many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answer and provides a rich collection of others.
These essays began as a critique of the argument by Benedict Andersons highly influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Anderson traces Latin American nationalisms to local circulation of colonial newspapers and tours of duty of colonial administrators, but this book shows the limited validity of these arguments.
Instead, Beyond Imagined Communities shows how more diverse cultural influences shaped Latin American nationalisms. Four historians examine social situations: Franois-Xavier Guerra studies various forms of political communication; Tulio Halpern Donghi, political parties; Sarah C. Chambers, the feminine world of salons; and Andrew Kirkendall, the institutions of higher education that trained the new administrators. Next, four critics examine production of cultural objects: Fernando Unzueta investigates novels; Sara Castro-Klarn, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz Gonzlez Stephan, national literary histories and international expositions.
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Book Title: Beyond Imagined Communities : Reading and Writing the Nation in N
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
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Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publication Name: Beyond Imagined Communities : Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
