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Latin America at fin-de-siècle universal exhibitions : modern cultures of visuality
- Title
- Latin America at fin-de-siècle universal exhibitions : modern cultures of visuality / Alejandra Uslenghi.
- Author
- Uslenghi, Alejandra, 1972-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- ©2016
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- Description
- xv, 244 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- "This study traces the participation of Latin American countries and modernist writers in turn-of-the-century Universal Exhibitions in the US and France. It examines their displays of material culture, photographic exhibits, pavilion architecture, and literary chronicles on expositions analysing how the production of these imaginaries partook in the age of modern global spectacle"--
- Series Statement
- New directions in Latino American cultures
- Uniform Title
- New directions in Latino American cultures.
- Subjects
- Modernism (Literature) > Latin America > History and criticism
- ART / Caribbean & Latin American
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
- HISTORY / Latin America / General
- Exhibitions > Social aspects > History > 19th century
- National characteristics, Latin American > Exhibitions
- Latin America > Civilization > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Modern Vistas: Latin American Photography at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition -- 2. Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition -- 3. Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Modernity's Spectacle at the Paris 1900 Universal Exposition -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781137561947
- 1137561947
- LCCN
- 2015024372
- 40025619206
- OCLC
- ocn917339816
- 917339816
- SCSB-5835751
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries