BEYOND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES by John Charles Chasteen, Sara Castro-Klaren ( 9780801878527 )

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Title:

BEYOND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
READING AND WRITING THE NATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICA

By:

John Charles Chasteen, Sara Castro-Klaren

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0801878527

ISBN 13:

9780801878527

Publisher:

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 December, 2003

Series:

Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Pages:

272

Description:

How did the disparate nationalisms of Latin America's many countries arise from their comon backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native and African origins? The contributors to this text show how more diverse influences shaped the area.

Synopsis:

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? This book 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: Francois-Xavier Guerra studies various forms of political communication; Tulio Halperin Doghi, 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 Klaren, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, national literary histories and international expositions.

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