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"The rendering and memory of the Paraguayan War was from its very beginning a conflictive endeavor. What historians have called the "first modern war" in the region was an overwhelming experience that defied its protagonists' ability to reconcile its violence with the ideals of an incipient national identity. It was also one of the first photographed conflicts worldwide, which, on the one hand, provided new access to the war experience to an extended audience, and, on the other, zeroed in on the voids and silences of the representations of the war. In this essay, I first study the unease in depicting and remembering the conflict, focusing on press coverage and Josâe Ignacio Garmendia's memories. I then pause at some of the photographs taken by the studio Bate & Ca. and reflect on their power to disturb, move, and evoke the violence of war. I argue that these are images that demand an active gaze, calling on the viewer to complete that which is not being shown"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
Ana Peluffo specializes in affect and the emotions in Latin American literatures and cultures, transnational feminisms and nineteenth-century cultural studies. She is the author of En clave emocional: Cultura y afecto en América Latina (2016) and Lágrimas andinas: Género y virtud republicana (2005). She has edited or co-edited Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina (2010); Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI (2012); Su afectísima discípula, Cartas a Ricardo Palma (2018) and Afecto, redes y epistolarios (2018).Ronald Briggs studies the convergence of education and literary theory. Publications include Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar: Simón Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution and The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910 (2017) which was awarded the Best Book Prize by the Nineteenth-Century section of the Latin American Studies Association in 2018.
Summary
This volume includes multiple theoretical and historical perspectives on how different forms of print culture responded to and provided an impulse for social change before, during, and after the tumultuous years of Latin American independence. It will be a key resource for scholars, readers and students interested in Latin American literature.
