Lines of geography in Latin American narrative : national territory, national literature / Aarti Smith Madan.
2017
G76.5.L29
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Title
Lines of geography in Latin American narrative : national territory, national literature / Aarti Smith Madan.
Author
Madan, Aarti Smith, author.
ISBN
9783319551401 (electronic book)
331955140X (electronic book)
9783319551395
3319551396
331955140X (electronic book)
9783319551395
3319551396
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustration, map.
Call Number
G76.5.L29
Dewey Decimal Classification
910.7208
Summary
This text looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in 19th-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertoes as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America's first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
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Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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