{"product_id":"latin-america-at-fin-de-si鐵le-universal-exhibitions-modern-cultures-of-visuality-hardcover","title":"Latin America at Fin-De-Si鐵le Universal Exhibitions: Modern Cultures of Visuality - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlejandra Uslenghi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning 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, as well as how their modern writers experienced and narrated these events by introducing new literary forms and modernizing literary language. Following these itineraries overseas and back, Uslenghi illuminates the contested, political, and transformative relations that emerged as images and material culture travelled from sites of production to those of exhibition, exchange, and consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlejandra 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781669650720,"sku":"9781137561947","price":178.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a11d0dcb1be8ee9525b55c64ea605027.webp?v=1780555068","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/latin-america-at-fin-de-si%e9%90%b5le-universal-exhibitions-modern-cultures-of-visuality-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}