Short description:

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfield.

Long description:

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields.

The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, and cultural processes that account for the becoming of Latin America in the nineteenth century?from Mexico and the Caribbean Basin to the Southern Cone. The thematic division of the book into six parts allows for a better understanding of the ways in which different themes are interrelated and affords readers the opportunity to draw their own connections among subfields. The volume assembles a robust sample of recent and innovative scholarship on the subject, reformulating from fresh perspectives commonly held views on the issues that characterized the era. Additionally, it provides an overarching analysis of the field and introduces cutting-edge concepts all within one expansive volume, opening the dialogue about topics that share common denominators and modeling how those topics can be approached from a variety of perspectives.

The innovative volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies and Spanish studies. Readers unfamiliar with the period will acquire a comprehensive view of its complexities, while specialists will discover new interpretations and archives.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

On Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Coordinates for a Companion

Part 1. The Invention of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Introduction

1.     The Idea of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Part 2. Sovereignties in Dispute

Introduction

2.     The Haitian Revolution and Independence in Latin America

3.     Cultural and Political Debates on Independence and Sovereignty in the Early Nineteenth Century

4.     Frontier Crossroads: US Expansionist Wars, Territorial Anxieties, and Nineteenth-Century Latin America

5.     Sovereignty, Finances, and the Novel

6.     The Body of the Nation: Images of Sovereignty in Times of War in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Part 3. Wars, Violence, Social Strife 

Introduction

7.     Caudillismo: Definitions, Histories, Representations

8.     Caudillismo and Banditry

9.     Engendering War Writing in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

10.  Radical Genealogies: The Beginnings of Anarchism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, 1860-1890

Part 4. Re-Drawing Territories

Introduction

11.  Tropical Seas: Scenes of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives

12.  Transpacific Relations and Chinese Labor in the Americas

13.  Hemispheric Literary Networks and José Martí?s Charleston Earthquake

14.  Civic Festivals, Popular Spectacles, and the Art of Drawing Republics

Part 5. Bodies and Citizenship

Introduction

15.  Citizenships and Cultural Politics

16.  Citizenship, Visual Culture, ?Costumbrismo?

17.  Tuning the Indian: Creole Discourse, Citizenship, and Aurality in (Post)colonial Latin America

18.  Slavery, Emancipation, and the History of Racial Silence in the Americas

19.  Fictions of Jewishness

20.  Obscenity, Obscene Humor, Syphilis, and Popular Music in Turn-of-the-Century Spanish America: A Case Study

21.  Necropolitics of Affect: Sentimentality, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Part 6. Knowledges

Introduction

22.  Science, (Not-)Knowing, and Periodical Cultures

23.  Work and the Intellectual: From Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854) to Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909)

24.  Literary Crimes: Turn-of-the-Century Authorship

25.  Thinking through Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

26.  Museums and Archives: Symbolic Extractivism, Nationhood, and Secularization

27.   Art Makers and the Making of Art: Latin America, ca. 1780-1880