Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
Aarti Smith Madan · 2017
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This text looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in 19th-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertoes as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America's first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states.--
Book details
- Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 291
- ISBN
- 9783319551395
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