Geography of Hard Times - Narratives About Travel to South America, 1780-1849

Informationen zum Autor Ángela Pérez-Mejía is an Associate Professor in the Romance and Comparative Literature Department at Brandeis University. The Spanish version of this book won honorable mention in the literary essay category, International Literary Prize, Casa de las Américas, Cuba, 2000. Klappentext This fascinating glimpse into South America's past focuses on the works of four European voyagers who came to SouthAmerica and left a legacy of travel writing in their wake: Jos6Celestino Mutis! a Spanish botanist and doctor; Alexandervon Humboldt! a German geographer; Maria Graham! a British historian; and Flora Tristan! a French feminist and labor activist whose father was Peruvian. Each took on his or her voyage as a personal endeavor! and collectively their travels covered the Andes from its northern traces in Venezuela to the southern heights of Chile and Arequipa. Their writing contributed to the construction of a complex map of the Andes in which many levels of physical and social geography may be read. By analyzing the ravelers' narratives! illustrations! and maps! Angela Pdrez-Mejia unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience! explores its impact on both the object of description and the traveler's subjectivity! and the collective readership seeking a discourse of nationhood.

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• Authors: Angela Perez Mejia, Angela Perez-Mejia, Ángela Pérez-Mejía, Perez-Mejia/cluster
• Assisted by: Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal (Editor), Jorge J. E. Gracia (Editor), Dick Cluster (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2004
• EAN: 9780791460139
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6013-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Suny Latin American and Iberia
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic