Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America

William G. Acree Jr. is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Introduction:; - William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia; PART I. Lasting Impressions; 1. Foundational Images in Latin America; - Hugo Achugar; 2. Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations. The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture; - William G. Acree Jr.; 3. Novels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico; - Amy E. Wright; 4. Toikove Nane Retal Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868; - Michael Kenneth Huner; Part II. Cultures on Display; 5. Forms of Historic Imagination: Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela; - Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan; 6. Anything Goes: Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America; - John Charles Chasteen; 7. Performing the Porfiriato: Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power; - Stuart A. Day; Part III. Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations; 8. The Imponderable and the Permissible: Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucatan Peninsula; - Terry Rugeley; 9. Birds of a Feather: Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality; - Christopher Conway; 10. Unveiling the Mask of Modernity: A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of Jose Marti; - Patricia Lapolla Swier; 11. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America; - Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia.

"Nineteenth-Century Studies have taught us to reject an idea of nation-formation as a single, organic, and continuous process. The great achievement of this volume is to have reassembled the diversity of approaches and themes that make up the field today. This is the nineteenth century as panorama: a vast tableau with multiple clusters of action, rather than focused on a single center capturing our gaze." JENS ANDERMANN BIRKBECK COLLEGE, LONDON AUTHOR OF THE OPTIC OF THE STATE: VISUALITY AND POWER IN ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL"