Title Private topographies : space, subjectivity, and political change in modern Latin America / Marzena Grzegorczyk

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) Contents Introduction -- Transitions, Subjects and Topographies -- Travel, Experience and Reflection: Readerly Topography in Periquillo Sarniento -- Theatricality: On Creole Agency in Sarmientoþs Trilogy Civilizacion y barbarie -- Lost Space: Juana Manuela Gorriti's Postcolonial Geography -- Building in 1900: An Agoraphobic Tale -- Eclipse of Reason: Euclides da Cunha's "Improper City" -- Conclusion Summary In Private Topographies, Grzegorczyk identifies and analyzes the types of postcolonial subjectivity prevalent among the Creole (Euro-American) ruling classes in post-independence, nineteenth-century century Latin America as articulated through their relation to their surroundings. Exactly how did creole elites change their self-conception in the wake of independence? In what ways and why did they feel compelled to restructure their personal space? What contradictions did they respond to? Where and how were the boundaries between public and private constructed? How were the categories of race and gender relevant to this process? For the first time, this book links together political transitions (the end of the colonial period in Latin America) with "implacements"--Attempts that people make to reorganize the space around them. By looking at cartographies of states and regions, the structure of towns, and appearance and lay-out of homes in literature from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil from this nineteenth century period of transition, Grzegorczyk sheds new light on the ways a culture remakes itself and the mechanisms through which subjectivities shift during periods of political change Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-183) and index Notes Print version record Subject Latin American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Creoles in literature. Space and time in literature. Literature and society -- Latin America Literature: history & criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Literature. Autonomy and independence movements Creoles in literature Latin American prose literature Literature and society Space and time in literature SUBJECT Latin America -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements Subject Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781403978639 1403978638 128136407X 9781281364074 9781403967480 1403967482

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