Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870 uses affect as an analytical tool to uncover the countervailing forces that shaped Latin American literatures and cultures during the first six decades of the nineteenth century. Chapters provide perspectives on colonial violence and its representation, on the development of the national idea, on communities within and beyond the nation, and on the intersectional development of subjectivity during and after processes of cultural and political independence. This volume includes interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth-century Latin American cultures that range from visual and art history to historiography to comparative literature and the study of literary and popular print culture. This book engages with the complex and sometimes counterintuitive relationship between felt ideas of community and the political changes that shaped these affective networks and communities.

Leidos en conjunto los ensayos que se incluyen en Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas plantean la necesidad de revisar algunos de los paradigmas criticos que han estructurado el campo de los estudios decimononicos para proponer lecturas menos dicotomicas y fluidas de aquellos binomios (civilizacion-barbarie, campo-ciudad, letra-imagen, femenino-masculino, tradicion-modernidad) que han ocupado un lugar importante en la genealogia critica de los estudios latinoamericanistas del siglo XIX. Incorporando a la reflexion los aportes de los estudios culturales a la critica latinoamericanista del siglo XIX, los autores de este libro reexaminan desde diversas disciplinas y con una gran variedad de enfoques teoricos el debate sobre la construccion de naciones y subjetividades.