The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfield.

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.

Introduction On Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Coordinates for a Companion Part 1. The Invention of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century Introduction 1. The Idea of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century Part 2. Sovereignties in Dispute Introduction 2. The Haitian Revolution and Independence in Latin America 3. Cultural and Political Debates on Independence and Sovereignty in the Early Nineteenth Century 4. Frontier Crossroads: US Expansionist Wars, Territorial Anxieties, and Nineteenth-Century Latin America 5. Sovereignty, Finances, and the Novel 6. The Body of the Nation: Images of Sovereignty in Times of War in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Part 3. Wars, Violence, Social Strife Introduction 7. Caudillismo: Definitions, Histories, Representations 8. Caudillismo and Banditry 9. Engendering War Writing in Nineteenth-Century Latin America 10. Radical Genealogies: The Beginnings of Anarchism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, 1860-1890 Part 4. Re-Drawing Territories Introduction 11. Tropical Seas: Scenes of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives 12. Transpacific Relations and Chinese Labor in the Americas 13. Hemispheric Literary Networks and José Martí's Charleston Earthquake 14. Civic Festivals, Popular Spectacles, and the Art of Drawing Republics Part 5. Bodies and Citizenship Introduction 15. Citizenships and Cultural Politics 16. Citizenship, Visual Culture, "Costumbrismo" 17. Tuning the Indian: Creole Discourse, Citizenship, and Aurality in (Post)colonial Latin America 18. Slavery, Emancipation, and the History of Racial Silence in the Americas 19. Fictions of Jewishness 20. Obscenity, Obscene Humor, Syphilis, and Popular Music in Turn-of-the-Century Spanish America: A Case Study 21. Necropolitics of Affect: Sentimentality, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Peru Part 6. Knowledges Introduction 22. Science, (Not-)Knowing, and Periodical Cultures 23. Work and the Intellectual: From Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854) to Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909) 24. Literary Crimes: Turn-of-the-Century Authorship 25. Thinking through Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Latin America 26. Museums and Archives: Symbolic Extractivism, Nationhood, and Secularization 27. Art Makers and the Making of Art: Latin America, ca. 1780-1880