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The Desertmakers - Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (Paperback)
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The Desertmakers - Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
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This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different
conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the
last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,
and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel in the context
of the consolidation of state apparatuses in these countries,
Uriarte underlines the essential role that war (in connection to
empire and capital) has played in the Latin American process of
modernization and state formation. In this book, the analysis of
British and Latin American travel narratives proves particularly
productive in reading the ways in which national spaces are
reconfigured, reimagined, and reappropriated by the state
apparatus. War turns out to be a central instrument not just for
making possible this logic of appropriation, but also for bringing
temporal notions such as modernization and progress to spaces that
were described - albeit problematically - as being outside of
history. The book argues that wars waged against "deserts" (as
Patagonia, the sertao, Paraguay, and the Uruguayan countryside were
described and imagined) were in fact means of generating empty
spaces, real voids that were the condition for new foundations. The
study of travel writing is an essential tool for understanding the
transformations of space brought by war, and for analyzing in
detail the forms and connotations of movement in connection to
violence. Uriarte pays particular attention to the effects that
witnessing war had on the traveler's identity and on the relation
that is established with the oikos or point of departure of their
own voyage. Written at the intersection of literary analysis,
critical geography, political science, and history, this book will
be of interest to those studying Latin American literature, Travel
Writing, and neocolonialism and Empire writing.
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