Author Bio

William G. Acree Jr. is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Main Description

How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.

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Reviews

"Nicely researched and written; eloquent narrative, informative notes, and illustrations...Highly recommended."
--Choice

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"Nineteenth Century Studies have taught us to reject an idea of nation-formation as a single, organic, and continuous process. The great achievement of this volume is to have reassembled the diversity of approaches and themes that make up the field today. This is the nineteenth century as panorama: a vast tableau with multiple clusters of action, rather than focused on a single center capturing our gaze."


--Jens Andermann, Birkbeck College, London, author of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil

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Table of Contents

Introduction
William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos Gonzlez 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 'ane Ret! 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 Gonzlez-Stephan
6. Anything Goes: Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin Amrica
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 Yucatn 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 Jos Mart
Patricia Lapolla Swier
11. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Juan Carlos Gonzlez Espitia

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