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Beyond imagined communities : reading and writing the nation in nineteenth-century Latin America / edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, cop. 2003Description: xxv, 252 sISBN:
  • 0801878527
  • 0801878535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.54/098/09034 21
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.
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Book Högskolan Väst Entréplan / Entrance floor 320.54 Beyond Available 6005320013496
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Essays from a meeting of Latin American scholars held in the spring of 2000.

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.