In:
Journeys, Berghahn Books, Vol. 21, No. 2 ( 2020-12-1), p. 24-41
Abstract:
This article explores the ways in which nineteenth-century Argentine author, Eduarda Mansilla de García, engaged with the issues of women and modernity in her 1882 travelogue, Recuerdos de viaje . It argues that the practice of travel writing served a dual purpose for Mansilla. Publishing a travelogue about the United States enabled Mansilla to trouble Argentine period gender restrictions while at the same critically evaluate North American females. Drawing from theorizations regarding travel writing as a place of power negotiations, I unveil how Mansilla employed her travelogue as a means of validating the cultural capital of Latin American geocultural space in comparison with that of the United States. Consequently, this nineteenth-century Latin American travel narrative did more than the task of light entertainment; it engaged with significant, ongoing period transnational debates regarding modernity, gender, and nation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1465-2609
,
1752-2358
DOI:
10.3167/jys.2020.210202
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Publication Date:
2020
SSG:
10
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