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This book gives a panoramic view of the Latin American cultural production during the period 1870-1930 from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the role that capital and global circulation of people and goods played in the Latin American cultural production of the period 1870-1930.
List of contents
Introduction Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte; Part I. Commodities: 1. Rubber Alejandro Quin; 2. Guano and nitrates Lisa Burner; 3. Coffee Benjamin S. Johnson; 4. Plantains and bananas Felipe Martínez-Pinzón; 5. Sugar Richard Rosa; 6. Yerba Jennifer L. French; Part II. Networks: 7. Latin Americanisms Fernando Degiovanni; 8. Cosmopolitanisms Gonzalo Aguilar; 9. Chinoiseries Rosario Hubert; 10. Diasporas Marissa L. Ambio; 11. Feminisms Gwen Kirkpatrick; Part III. Uprisings: 12. Anarchisms Rafael Mondragón Velázquez; 13. Indigenismos Jorge Coronado; 14. Abolitionism Víctor Goldgel-Carballo; 15. Rural insurgencies Juan Pablo Dabove; Part IV. Connectors: 16. Money Alejandra Laera; 17. Bodies Javier Guerrero; 18. Travel Javier Uriarte; 19. War Sebastián Díaz-Duhalde; 20. Science María del Pilar Blanco; 21. Visual Culture Alejandra Uslenghi; Part V. Cities: 22. Iquique, Chile Carl Fischer; 23. Manaus, Brazil Sarah J. Townsend; 24. San Juan, Puerto Rico Jorge L. Lizardi Pollock; 25. Ciudad Juárez-El Paso David Dorado Romo.
About the author
Fernando Degiovanni is professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on issues of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, cultural hegemony, and performance in early twentieth century Argentina. He is the author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en Argentina (2007), and Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline (2018). In 2010, he was awarded the IILI's Alfredo Roggiano Prize for Latin American Cultural and Literary Criticism, and in 2019, he received the LASA's Southern Cone Studies Section Award for Best Book in the Humanities. He is the current president of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI).Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor of Latin American literature at Stony Brook University. His research interests include travel writing, environmental humanities, the Amazon, territorial imagination in Latin America, theories of space and place, war and representation. He has published The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (2020), and two co-edited books: Entre el humo y la niebla: Guerra y cultura en América Latina (2016) and Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon (2019). The Spanish-language manuscript of The Desertmakers won Uruguay's 2012 National Prize for Literature.
Summary
This book gives a panoramic view of the Latin American cultural production during the period 1870-1930 from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the role that capital and global circulation of people and goods played in the Latin American cultural production of the period 1870-1930.
