Latin America at fin-de-siècle universal exhibitions : modern cultures of visuality /
"Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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| Summary: | "Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism, as well as how its modern writers experienced and narrated these events by introducing new literary forms and modernizing literary language. Following these itineraries overseas and back, Uslenghi illuminates the contested, political, and transformative relations that emerged as images and material culture travelled from sites of production to those of exhibition, exchange, and consumption"-- "This study traces the participation of Latin American countries and modernist writers in turn-of-the-century Universal Exhibitions in the US and France. It examines their displays of material culture, photographic exhibits, pavilion architecture, and literary chronicles on expositions analysing how the production of these imaginaries partook in the age of modern global spectacle"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137561947 1137561947 |