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pages cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Aesthetics of Disorder -- The Paraguayan War Imagined / Candela Marini -- Networks of New World Authority / Ronald Briggs -- Artisans and Affective Labor / Brendan Lanctot -- Reading (In) the Streets / William Acree -- Publicity and Print Culture / José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra -- Literature and Political Corruption / Ariel de la Fuente -- Emotions and Politics in the Era of Caudillos / Ricardo Salvatore -- Part II: Affective Communities -- Imagining Popular Sovereignty / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado -- The Arithmetic of Sentiment / Shelley Garrigan -- Costumbrismo as Political Ethnography / Lina del Castillo -- The Disruptive Andean / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela -- The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing / Corina Zeltsman -- Hygiene, Good Manners and the Public Body / Juan Carlos González Espitia -- Intimacy, Identity and the Nation / Lee Skinner -- Part III: Intersectional Subjectivities -- Shame, Enslavement, and Identity / David Luis-Brown -- Narratives from Enslavement / Lucía Stecher -- Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence / Pilar Egüez Guevara and Michelle Patiño-Flores -- Childhood, Race and Gender / Ana Peluffo -- Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brazil / César Braga-Pinto -- Part IV: Transoceanic Consciousness -- Women's Travel Writing / Francesca Denegri -- Hydraulic Modernity / Carlos Abreu Mendoza -- History and the Transatlantic Imagination / Karen Racine -- Humboldt's Aesthetic Populations / Stefan H. Uhlig -- Argentine Darwinists / Leila Gómez. |
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| Summary |
"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 José 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Latin American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre |
Literary criticism. |
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Essays. |
| Added Author |
Peluffo, Ana.
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Briggs, Ronald, 1975-
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Cambridge eBooks and Partner Presses: Full EBA, All eBooks
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| Related To |
Online version: Latin American literature in transition, 1800-1870 Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009169448 (DLC) 2022005645 |
| ISBN |
9781009169455 (hardback) |
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9781009169431 (paperback) |
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9781009169448 (ebook) |
| OCLC # |
sseb_ssj0002765198 |
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