Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America : Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations

how Did Culture And Identity Take Root As The New Nations And State Institutions Were Being Fashioned Across Latin America After The Wars Of Independence? These Original Essays Tease Out The Power Of Print And Visual Cultures, Examine The Impact Of Carnival, Delve Into Religion And War, And Study The Complex Histories Of Gender Identities And Disease. Foundational images in Latin America / Hugo Achugar Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture / William G. Acree, Jr Novels, newspapers, and nation : the beginnings of serial fiction in nineteenth-century Mexico / Amy E. Wright Toikove ñane retã! : republican nationalism at the battlefield crossings of print and speech in wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 / Michael K. Huner Forms of historic imagination : visual culture, historiography, and the tropes of war in nineteenth-century Venezuela / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan Anything goes : carnivalesque transgressions in nineteenth-century America / John Charles Chasteen Performing the Porfiriato : Federico Gamboa and the negotiation of power / Stuart A. Day The imponderable and the permissible : caste wars, culture wars, and Porfirian piety in the Yucatan Peninsula / Terry Rugeley Birds of a feather : pollos and the nineteenth-century prehistory of Mexican homosexuality / Christopher Conway Unveiling the mask of modernity : a critical gendered perspective of Amistad Funesta and the early chronicles of Jose Martí / Patricia Swier A brief syphilography of nineteenth-century Latin America / Juan Carlos Gonzaléz-Espitia. "How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease."--[book cover] Includes essays that tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.