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Mexican Travel Writing

Mexican Travel Writing

Paperback

Series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, Book 9

Literary CriticismGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 3039110209
ISBN13: 9783039110209
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
Published: Nov 11 2008
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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