How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries--elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery--arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answer and provides a rich collection of others.
These essays began as a critique of the argument by Benedict Anderson's highly influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and...
How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries--elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery--arise from their common b...
This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539 1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso s Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a reframing of the history of native non-alphabetic cultures that undermined the colonial rhetoric of his time and the geopolitical divisions it purported. Through his research in both Andean and...
This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539 1616), one of the first Lati...
