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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255231903321

Autore

Uslenghi Alejandra

Titolo

Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions [[electronic resource] ] : Modern Cultures of Visuality / / by Alejandra Uslenghi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-55396-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 244 p.)

Collana

New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Classificazione

ART044000HIS024000LIT004100

Disciplina

607/.3444361098

Soggetti

Ethnology—Latin America

America—History

America—Literatures

Arts

United States—Study and teaching

Social sciences

Latin American Culture

History of the Americas

North American Literature

American Culture

Social Sciences, general

Latin America Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. Modern Vistas: Latin American Photography At At the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial 2. Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition. 3. Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Modernity's Spectacle at the ParisEpilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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 their 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.