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Beyond Imagined Communities : Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Beyond Imagined Communities Reading and Writing the Nation in NineteenthCentury Latin America
Author: Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen
How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries -- elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery -- arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Ni...  more », discards one answer and provides a rich collection of others.These essays began as a critique of the argument by Benedict Anderson's highly influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Anderson traces Latin American nationalisms to local circulation of colonial newspapers and tours of duty of colonial administrators, but this book shows the limited validity of these arguments.Instead, Beyond Imagined Communities shows how more diverse cultural influences shaped Latin American nationalisms. Four historians examine social situations: François-Xavier Guerra studies various forms of political communication; Tulio Halperín Donghi, political parties; Sarah C. Chambers, the feminine world of salons; and Andrew Kirkendall, the institutions of higher education that trained the new administrators. Next, four critics examine production of cultural objects: Fernando Unzueta investigates novels; Sara Castro-Klarén, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz González Stephan, national literary histories and international expositions.
ISBN-13: 9780801878527
ISBN-10: 0801878527
Publication Date: 12/23/2003
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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