Beyond imagined communities : reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America

Publication Data

• Title Beyond imagined communities : reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America
• Contributors Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen
• Publisher Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Washington, D.C.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Contents: The historians. Forms of communication, political spaces, and cultural identities in the creation of Spanish American nations / François-Xavier Guerra
Argentine counterpoint : rise of the nation, rise of the state / Tulio Halperín-Donghi
Letters and salons : women reading and writing the nation / Sarah C. Chambers
Student culture and nation-state formation / Andrew Kirkendall. The Critics. Scenes of reading : imagining nations/romancing history / Fernando Unzueta
The nation in ruins : archaeology and the rise of the nation / Sara Castro-Klarén
An amnesic nation : the erasure of indigenous pasts by Uruguayan expert knowledges / Gustavo Verdesio
Showcases of consumption : historical panoramas and universal expositions
Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephán.

Topics

• Nationalism :: Latin America :: History :: 19th century
• Identity (Psychology) :: Latin America
• Ethnicity :: Latin America
• National state
• Latin America :: History :: 19th century
• Latin America

Beyond imagined communities : reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America. ISBN 0801878535. Published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.