The Reinvention Of Mexico In Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing

Author : Jane Hanley
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 082650213X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing written by Jane Hanley and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world. In addition to analyzing texts that have received little to no critical attention, this book examines the connections between contemporary travel, including the local dynamics of encounters and the global circulation of information, and the significant influence of the history of exchange between Spain and Mexico in the construction of existing ideas of place. To frame the analysis of contemporary travel writing, author Jane Hanley examines key moments in the history of Mexican-Spanish relations, including the origins of narratives regarding Spaniards' sense of Mexico's similarity to and difference from Spain. This history underpins the discussion of the role of Spanish travelers in their encounters with Mexican peoples and places and their reflection on their own role as communicators of cultural meaning and participants in the tourist economy with its impact—both negative and positive—on places.

Author : Thea Pitman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110209
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Travel Writing written by Thea Pitman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre's imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares.

Author : Claire Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135167664
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America written by Claire Lindsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ‘domestic’ journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from the continent itself and largely in Spanish. Historically, travel writing about Latin America has been written primarily from the perspective of the foreign, often European, traveller. As such, and following the large influx of military, scientific, and leisure travellers in the region since its colonisation, much of this foreign travel writing has depicted the continent in predominantly exoticist and/or imperialist terms. Lindsay explores how Latin American travellers have conceived and constructed narratives about travel at home and considers how such texts (many of them available in English translation or with subtitles) function to counter or corroborate long-standing myths about the continent. Through a series of regionally- and thematically-oriented case studies that engage with key issues, themes and debates in both Latin American and travel studies, Lindsay provides the first sustained interdisciplinary study of contemporary domestic travel narratives about the region and will also comprise an important intervention into methodological debates about travel and travel writing.

Author : Leila Gómez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298850X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Domesticity written by Leila Gómez and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Robert Weis Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico’s role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, and economy of Mexico were fundamental to the configuration of modern Western art and science. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travelers of different national origins and trained in varied disciplines from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It starts with Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico and Latin America, and ends with Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an “oasis of horror.” In between, there are archaeologists, photographers, war correspondents, educators, writers, and artists for whom the trip to Mexico represented a rite of passage, a turning point in their intellectual biographies, their scientific disciplines, and their artistic practices.

Author : John Brande Trend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107502055
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by John Brande Trend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1940, this book contains a lively account of a journey through Mexico by John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. Trend vividly describes important ancient sites such as Cichén Itzá as well as Spanish traditions that he observed while in Mexico. Photographic plates of important artefacts are also included in the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Spanish influence in Mexico and Mexican history.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Eamon Dolan Books
ISBN 13 : 0544866479
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Plain of Snakes written by Paul Theroux and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

Author : William Bullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico; Containing Remarks on the Present State of New Spain (etc.) written by William Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Bullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico written by William Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Bullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico written by William Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jürgen Schlaeger
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823341741
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Metamorphosis - Structures of Cultural Transformations written by Jürgen Schlaeger and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: