Latin America at fin-de-siècle universal exhibitions: modern cultures of visuality

"Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how...

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1. Verfasser: Uslenghi, Alejandra 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2016
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:New directions in Latino American cultures
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Zusammenfassung:"Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how its modern writers experienced and narrated these events by introducing new literary forms and modernizing literary language. Following these itineraries overseas and back, Uslenghi illuminates the contested, political, and transformative relations that emerged as images and material culture travelled from sites of production to those of exhibition, exchange, and consumption"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 244 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781137561947

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