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Patricios en contienda
Patricios en contienda explora las maneras en que los cuadros de costumbres fueron usados en Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela para nacionalizar poblaciones heterogeneas y producir pueblos nacionales para estos tres paises tras la disolucion de la llamada Gran Colombia (1819-1831). Al situar los cuadros de costumbres en el contexto de las guerras civiles y reformas liberales, esta investigacion muestra como las antiguas elites orgullosas de su abolengo colonial--como Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara (1831-1872) o Fermin Toro (1806-1865)--los usaron para legitimarse frente a las nuevas elites que ascendian tras las guerras de Independencia, como es el caso del general Jose Antonio Paez (1790-1873), s...
Intimate Frontiers
Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region —its gigantism, its richness, its exceptionality, among other— choosing to approach these rather from quotidian, everyday experiences of a more intimate nature. The multinational, pluriethnic corpus of texts critically examined here, explores a wide range of cultural artifacts including travelogues, diaries, and novels about the rubber boom genocide, as well as indigenous oral histories, documentary films, and photography about the region. The different voices gathered in this book show that the richness of the Amazon lays not in its natural resources or opportunities for economic exploit, but in the richness of its histories/stories in the form of songs, oral histories, images, material culture, and texts.
Una cultura de invernadero
Traza la construcción del espacio nacional colombiano en el pensamiento letrado decimonónico, productor de una geografía nacional imaginada que ve el trópico como incompatible con la civilización. Este libro es algo más que un estudio riguroso y original: construye una mirada y una apuesta crítica desde la cual repensar y contestar la distinción entre cultura y naturaleza. Un libro brillante y sistemático sobre el siglo XIX colombiano y latinoamericano (Gabriel Giorgi, New York University).
Museo de cuadros de costumbres y variedades. Tomo I y II
Esta es la primera reedición completa del Museo de cuadros de costumbres y va¬riedades (1866). Compuesta por 97 textos cortos y la primera impresión completa de la novela Manuela, de Eugenio Díaz, esta compilación fue editada por Vergara y Vergara como un álbum de recortes a partir de periódicos publicados desde 1846 y hasta 1866. A la manera de otras compilaciones, como Los españoles pintados por sí mismos (18431844) o Los cubanos pintados por sí mismos (1852), Vergara buscaba que el Museo representara el álbum familiar de Colombia. A partir de tipos humanos, eventos históricos y paisajes emblemáticos del país, el Museo debía ser leído no solo por un público colombiano, sin...
Mapping the Amazon
'Smith’s investigation focuses rigorously on the aesthetic complexities of these texts to demonstrate how, in a way even the authors themselves sometimes do not suspect, new ways arise of understanding their power of eco-criticism. [...] Smith’s contribution is this call, like few today, to awaken new energies in the literary and cultural criticism about the Amazon precisely because she has her feet grounded in the harsh history of the region, while her eyes are focused on different future possibilities for the region.' Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, ReVista
Bad Gays
An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive. Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains, failures, and baddies. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist M...
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies...
Against War
DIVAn analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms. /div
Doing Business in 2004
A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press
