1st Edition
The Desertmakers Travel, War, and the State in Latin America
By Javier Uriarte
Copyright 2020
322 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
322 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
322 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19 th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel in the context of the consolidation of state apparatuses in these countries, Uriarte underlines the essential role that war (in connection to... Read more
Introduction: Making Deserts 1. Making War, Making States 2. War in Terra Incognita: Burton’s Letters from the Battle Fields of Paraguay 3. Celebrating Detour: Empire, War, and Nomadism in The Purple Land 4. The Desert as Museum and Tomb: War in Francisco Moreno’s Voyages to Patagonia 5. Forms of (in)visibility: Movement and Ruins in Euclides da Cunha’s Os sertões Epilogue: The Remains
Biography
Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University, USA
