Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870: Volume 2

Shows how print culture responded to and provided an impulse for social change during tumultuous years of Latin American independence.

Ana Peluffo (Edited by), Ronald Briggs (Edited by)

9781009169455, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2022

410 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.72 kg

Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870 uses affect as an analytical tool to uncover the countervailing forces that shaped Latin American literatures and cultures during the first six decades of the nineteenth century. Chapters provide perspectives on colonial violence and its representation, on the development of the national idea, on communities within and beyond the nation, and on the intersectional development of subjectivity during and after processes of cultural and political independence. This volume includes interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth-century Latin American cultures that range from visual and art history to historiography to comparative literature and the study of literary and popular print culture. This book engages with the complex and sometimes counterintuitive relationship between felt ideas of community and the political changes that shaped these affective networks and communities.

Part I. Aesthetics of Disorder: 1. The Paraguayan War imagined Candela Marini
2. Networks of New World Authority Ronald Briggs
3. Artisans and Affective Labor Brendan Lanctot
4. Reading (In) the Streets William Acree
5. Publicity and Print Culture José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
6. Literature and Political Corruption Ariel de la Fuente
7. Emotions and Politics in the Era of Caudillos Ricardo Salvatore
Part II. Affective Communities: 8. Imagining Popular Sovereignty Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
9. The Arithmetic of Sentiment Shelley Garrigan
10. Costumbrismo as Political Ethnography Lina del Castillo
11. The Disruptive Andean Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela
12. The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing Corina Zeltsman
13. Hygiene, Good Manners and the Public Body Juan Carlos González Espitia
14. Intimacy, Identity and the Nation Lee Skinner
Part III. Intersectional Subjectivities: 15. Shame, Enslavement, and Identity David Luis-Brown
16. Narratives from Enslavement Lucía Stecher
17. Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence Pilar Egüez Guevara and Michelle Patiño-Flores
18. Childhood, Race and Gender Ana Peluffo
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brazil César Braga-Pinto
Part IV. Transoceanic Consciousness: 20. Women's Travel Writing Francesca Denegri
21. Hydraulic Modernity Carlos Abreu Mendoza
22. History and the Transatlantic Imagination Karen Racine
23. Humboldt's Aesthetic Populations Stefan H. Uhlig
24. Argentine Darwinists Leila Gómez.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]