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"The book's guiding argument militates against a facile casting of Latin American presence at the exhibitions as an exotic display for European spectators, and instead focuses on Latin American intellectuals availing themselves of the exhibitions as a point of departure for crafting and partaking of a cosmopolitan modernity on behalf of their transnational reading and viewing publics, a modernity that nevertheless finds itself incorporated into nationalist narratives. The study is particularly successful in asserting the relevance of literature and photography for grasping the international exhibitions' long-standing impact on LatinAmerican societies." - Claire F. Fox, University of Iowa, USA
"In three acts, drawing on a wealth of archive material, Uslenghi charts Latin Americans' attempts at 'conquering the image' the monumental mirrors of nineteenth-century world fairs shone back at them. This is truly pioneering work: a densely textured, theoretically acute study of the global circuits opened up by novel modes of making and circulating images and of the performances of spectatorship these called forth." - Jens Andermann, author of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil "At the fin de siècle, Latin America speaks the new international language of modernity: cosmopolitism, transnational spectacles, travels, and visuality. Uslenghi brilliantly analyzes the articulations, nuances, and controversies of that language in Brazilian, Argentine, and Mexican culture." - Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University, USA
"The book's guiding argument militates against a facile casting of Latin American presence at the exhibitions as an exotic display for European spectators, and instead focuses on Latin American intellectuals availing themselves of the exhibitions as a point of departure for crafting and partaking of a cosmopolitan modernity on behalf of their transnational reading and viewing publics, a modernity that nevertheless finds itself incorporated into nationalist narratives. The study is particularly successful in asserting the relevance of literature and photography for grasping the international exhibitions' long-standing impact on Latin American societies." - Claire F. Fox, University of Iowa, USA
"In three acts, drawing on a wealth of archive material, Uslenghi charts Latin Americans' attempts at 'conquering the image' the monumental mirrors of nineteenth-century world fairs shone back at them. This is truly pioneering work: a densely textured, theoretically acute study of the global circuits opened up by novel modes of making and circulating images and of the performances of spectatorship thesecalled forth." - Jens Andermann, author of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil
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Book Title: Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions
Book Subtitle: Modern Cultures of Visuality
Authors: Alejandra Uslenghi
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137553966
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56194-7Published: 15 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55396-6Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 244
Topics: Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, North American Literature, Arts, American Culture, Social Sciences, general