Nineteenth Century Latin America
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The subject of this volume is the secret actions carried out by various groups of individuals to establish the republic in Mexico, once it obtained its independence from Spain. This book deals with the various conspiracies to destroy the... more
En 1865, Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna viajó a Nueva York para buscar apoyo en contra de los avances españoles sobre costas peruanas y chilenas. Invocando la Doctrina Monroe, el chileno esperaba minar al decaído imperio español promoviendo,... more
Political Patronage was at the very basis of society's functioning in nineteenth-century Latin America, yet we know very little about its inner dynamics. This study examines the dilemma faced by elites of this period of how to reconcile... more
From the outbreak of the wars for independence in the Río de la Plata to the 1910 centennial celebration of independence, color-coded headbands known as divisas served as means of identifying political affiliation, necessary accoutrements... more
Este curso aborda tanto la producción como la función literaria y social de la novela de folletín representativa del siglo XIX en Hispanoamérica y sus contextos socioculturales, en relación con la aparición de la cultura popular a través... more
This presentation looks at the corpus of anti- (and pro-) slavery writings from the eighteen thirties, forties and fifties in Peru through the lens of discursive affect theory. It concludes that affective states such as sympathy... more
El curso "Corrientes literarias de Hispanoamérica y el Caribe I" propone analizar y reflexionar acerca de textos canónicos o no canónicos producidos durante el período colonial y el siglo XIX en las Américas y el Caribe, en relación con... more
The earliest texts of literary indigenismo in Peru contain all the tropes of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel, including a heavy dose of sympathy or compassion. This presentation defines a "sympathetic transaction" between elite... more