Beyond imagined communities
Beyond imagined communities: reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America
edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; c2003.
ISBN: 0801878527
DDC: 320.5409809034
LCC: F1412
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
Essays from a meeting of Latin American scholars held in the spring
of 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Beyond Imagined Communities / John Charles Chasteen --
1. Forms of Communication, Political Spaces, and Cultural Identities
in the Creation of Spanish American Nations / Francois-Xavier Guerra
-- 2. Argentine Counterpoint: Rise of the Nation, Rise of the State /
Tulio Halperin Donghi -- 3. Letters and Salons: Women Reading and
Writing the Nation / Sarah C. Chambers -- 4. Student Culture and
Nation-State Formation / Andrew J. Kirkendall -- 5. Scenes of
Reading: Imagining Nations/Romancing History in Spanish America /
Fernando Unzueta -- 6. The Nation in Ruins: Archaeology and the Rise
of the Nation / Sara Castro-Klaren -- 7. An Amnesic Nation: The
Erasure of Indigenous Pasts by Uruguayan Expert Knowledges / Gustavo
Verdesio -- 8. Showcases of Consumption: Historical Panoramas and
Universal Expositions.
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