Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800d1990s

ISBN-13: 9780842026949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 258 str.

Ingrid E. Fey; Karen Racine

Opis

This collection of essays and articles shows how Latin Americans' travels and residency abroad helped them re-examine their own origins and perceptions of their homeland. Latin Americans travelled both purposefully and frequently in the 19th and 20th centuries. Strange Pilgrimages reveals their experiences in Europe and the United States, and explores their power to shape opinions and bring outside influence back to Latin America. The book analyzes Latin Americans' long-standing attraction to and interest in other cultures and barometers of their own progress. In addition, it examines the invention of tradition, cultural practice and identity formation among nation-states. A combination of articles and primary sources provides readers with both informed analyses of the experiences of Latin American travellers and entertaining first-hand accounts from the travellers and exiles themselves. These travellers were a diverse group that included artists, diplomats, political exiles, athletes, dilettantes and more.