Latin America at Fin-De-Siècle Universal Exhibitions: Modern Cultures of Visuality

Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism.

Author: Alejandra Uslenghi
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/15/2015
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137561947

About the Author
Alejandra Uslenghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University, USA. She is the editor of Walter Benjamin: Culturas de la Imagen (2007). Uslenghi specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American literature, with an emphasis on visual culture. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, USA and her MA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research, USA.