The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Introduction

On Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Coordinates for a Companion

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo

Part 1. The Invention of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Introduction

1.     The Idea of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Michel Gobat

Part 2. Sovereignties in Dispute

 Introduction

2.     The Haitian Revolution and Independence in Latin America

Andrew Walker

3.     Cultural and Political Debates on Independence and Sovereignty in the Early Nineteenth Century

Javier Uriarte

4.     Frontier Crossroads: US Expansionist Wars, Territorial Anxieties, and Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Silvia Álvarez-Curbelo

5.     Sovereignty, Finances, and the Novel

Richard Rosa

6.     The Body of the Nation: Images of Sovereignty in Times of War in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz and Lúcia Klück Stumpf

Part 3. Wars, Violence, Social Strife 

Introduction

7.     Caudillismo: Definitions, Histories, Representations

Jennifer L. French

8.     Caudillismo and Banditry

Juan Pablo Dabove

9.     Engendering War Writing in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Vanesa Miseres

10.  Radical Genealogies: The Beginnings of Anarchism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, 1860-1890

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Part 4. Re-Drawing Territories

Introduction

11.  Tropical Seas: Scenes of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Gina Saraceni

12.  Transpacific Relations and Chinese Labor in the Americas

Ana Paulina Lee

13.  Hemispheric Literary Networks and José Martí’s Charleston Earthquake

Anna Brickhouse

14.  Civic Festivals, Popular Spectacles, and the Art of Drawing Republics

Brendan Lanctot

Part 5. Bodies and Citizenship

Introduction

15.  Citizenships and Cultural Politics

William Acree

16.  Citizenship, Visual Culture, “Costumbrismo”

Felipe Martínez-Pinzón

17.  Tuning the Indian: Creole Discourse, Citizenship, and Aurality in (Post)colonial Latin America

Carlos Abreu Mendoza

18.  Slavery, Emancipation, and the History of Racial Silence in the Americas

Samantha Payne

19.  Fictions of Jewishness

Stephen Silverstein

20.  Obscenity, Obscene Humor, Syphilis, and Popular Music in Turn-of-the-Century Spanish America: A Case Study

Juan Carlos González Espitia

21.  Necropolitics of Affect: Sentimentality, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Ana Peluffo

Part 6. Knowledges

Introduction

22.  Science, (Not-)Knowing, and Periodical Cultures

María del Pilar Blanco

23.  Work and the Intellectual: From Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854) to Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909)

Ronald Briggs

24.  Literary Crimes: Turn-of-the-Century Authorship

Nathalie Bouzaglo

25.  Thinking through Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Sarah J. Townsend

26.  Museums and Archives: Symbolic Extractivism, Nationhood, and Secularization

Álvaro Fernández Bravo

27.   Art Makers and the Making of Art: Latin America, ca. 1780-1880

Natalia Majluf

Biography

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where she also co-coordinates the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture. Her publications include Identidades imaginadas: biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba 1860–1898) and the collection Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (co-edited with Angela Rosenthal).

Graciela Montaldo is Professor at Columbia University in New York, USA. Her research explores Latin American cultural history, focusing on the production and circulation of cultural practices as they intersect with politics. She is the author of Museum of Consumption: Archives of Mass Culture in Argentina and co-editor of The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics, among other publications.