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The cultural "other" in nineteenth-century travel narratives : how the United States and Latin America described each other
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- Creator
- Miguel A. Cabañas ; with a foreword by Miguel Gomes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0773452400, 9780773452404
- OCLC
- ocn213407426
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.
- Putting the world in order: John Lloyd Stephens's Narration of America -- North of eden: romance and conquest in Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico -- In search of "America": the rhetoric of travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Viajes en Europa, Africa i America -- Traveling with your "type": Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz's A journey in Brazil -- With a colt, a brush, and a pen: George Catlin's Preservation of the Indian -- Wandering through the house: Fanny Chambers Gooch's Face to face with the Mexicans -- Democratic degradation of the new world and Spanish American regeneration in Marti's Escenas Norteamericanas
Subjects
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, Spanish American -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Other (Philosophy) in literature.
- Comparative literature -- American and Latin American.
- Comparative literature -- Latin American and American.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
- Comparative literature.