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

By Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Product details

• Authors: Adriana Méndez Rodenas
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2017
• EAN: 9781611488203
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-820-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama