Format:
1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:
9781611485080
Series Statement:
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims -- Chapter Two. Mapping the Unknown: European Women's Travels and the Gaze of Enchantment -- Chapter Three. Romancing the Nation: European Women's Travels in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America -- Chapter Four. Face-to-Face with the Other: Women Travelers as Ethnographers -- Coda: At Home in the Heights -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611485073
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781611485073
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1580579
