Building nineteenth-century Latin America: re-rooted cultures, identities, and nations

Abstract

Introduction: - William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia PART I. Lasting Impressions 1. Foundational Images in Latin America - Hugo Achugar 2. Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations: The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture - William G. Acree Jr 3. Novels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico - Amy E Wright 4. Toikove Nane Retal Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 - Michael Kenneth Huner PART II. Cultures on Display 5. Forms of Historic Imagination: Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela - Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan 6. Anything Goes: Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - John Charles Chasteen 7. Performing the Porfiriato: Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power - Stuart A. Day Part III. Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations 8. The Imponderable and the Permissible: Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucatan Peninsula - Terry Rugeley 9. Birds of a Feather: Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality - Christopher Conway 10. Unveiling the Mask of Modernity: A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of Jose Marti - Patricia Lapolla Swier 11. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia.