Beschreibung:
By Adriana Méndez Rodenas
This book studies the travel accounts of five "lady travelers" to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women's travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women's social condition.
ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European WomenPilgrimsChapter 2: Mapping the Unknown: European Women¿s Travels and the Gaze or EnchantmentChapter 3: Romancing the Nation: European Women¿s Travels in Nineteenth-Century SpanishAmericaChapter 4: Face-to-Face with the Other: Women Travelers as EthnographersCoda, At Home in the HeightsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author