Authors: Mary Loui Pratt
ISBN-13: 9780415438179, ISBN-10: 0415438179
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University, and formerly Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She has published widely in the areas of Latin American literature and society, comparative literature, gender studies, and the cultural study of colonialism and imperialism. She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003
Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
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Preface | ||
1 | Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone | 1 |
Pt. I | Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 | |
2 | Science, planetary consciousness, interiors | 15 |
3 | Narrating the anti-conquest | 38 |
4 | Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprociry | 69 |
5 | Eros and abolition | 86 |
Pt. II | The reinvention of America, 1800-50 | |
6 | Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America | 111 |
7 | Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales | 144 |
8 | Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning | 172 |
Pt. III | Imperial stylistics, 1860-1980 | |
9 | From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador | 201 |
Notes | 229 | |
Index | 251 |