LEADER 03386nam 2200517 450 001 9910659834603321 005 20220522143202.0 010 $a1-61249-608-3 010 $a1-61249-609-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000009273301 035 $a(OCoLC)1139363572 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse76056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5978703 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5978703 035 $a(OCoLC)1128446995 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009273301 100 $a20220522d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aspa 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGala?pagos $eimaginarios de la evolucio?n textual en las islas encantadas /$fEsteban Mayorga 210 1$aWest Lafayette, Indiana :$cPurdue University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 203 pages :)$cillustrations, map ; 225 1 $aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vVolume 77 311 $a1-55753-877-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLa primera cro?nica colonial de unas islas imaginarias: Carta a su majestad de Toma?s de Berlanga -- Metahistoria en el archipielago, la primera ficcio?n colonial: Historia de Los Incas de Sarmiento de Gamboa -- La fluidez de la seleccio?n natural: The Voyage of the Beagle de Charles Darwin -- La relacio?n entre el Transcendentalismo y las Gala?pagos: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles de Herman Melville -- Los piratas en Gala?pagos y la formacio?n del estado-nacio?n: El pirata del Guayas de Manuel Bilbao -- La construccio?n de la identidad galapaguense y ecuatoriana: Gala?pagos a la vista de Boli?var Naveda -- La fuerza del mercado y la perspectiva ecocri?tica: Gala?pagos: Huellas en el parai?so de Hugo Idrovo. 330 $a"This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Gala?pagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Gala?pagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vVolume 77. 606 $aNational characteristics, Ecuadorian 607 $aGalapagos Islands$xHistory 607 $aGalapagos Islands$xIn literature 607 $aGalapagos Islands$xDescription and travel 615 0$aNational characteristics, Ecuadorian. 676 $a305.8009866 700 $aMayorga$b Esteban$f1977-$01143677 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910659834603321 996 $aGala?pagos$92833171 997 $aUNINA