The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781032239996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 322 str.

Javier Uriarte

Opis

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the late 19^th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay..

Spis treści

List of Figures

A Note on Translations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Desertmakers

1 War in Terra Incognita: Richard Burton’s Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay

2 In Praise of Deviation: W. H. Hudson’s The Purple Land

3 Making Museums, Making Deserts: Francisco Moreno in Patagonia

4 The Limits of Visibility and Knowledge: Euclides da Cunha’s Os sertões

Afterword: What Is Left?

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University, USA