Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-century Latin America - European Women Pilgrims

This book studies the travel accounts of five "lady travelers" to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women's travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women's social condition.

List of contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women
Pilgrims
Chapter 2: Mapping the Unknown: European Women's Travels and the Gaze or Enchantment
Chapter 3: Romancing the Nation: European Women's Travels in Nineteenth-Century Spanish
America
Chapter 4: Face-to-Face with the Other: Women Travelers as Ethnographers
Coda, At Home in the Heights
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Adriana Méndez Rodenas is professor of Latin American and Caribbean literatures at the University of Iowa.

Summary

This book studies the travel accounts of five “lady travelers” to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women’s travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women’s social condition.

Product details

• Authors: Adriana Maendez Rodenas, Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, Mendez Rodenas Adriana, Adriana Mendez Rodenas
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611485073
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-507-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 238 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 512 g
• Illustrations: 27 BW Illustrations
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin Amer; Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin Amer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies