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Seeing the Nation: Costumbrismo in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Workshop Date: | 2009-09-18 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-07-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
169743 |
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This workshop will explore literary and visual manifestations of the distinctive Spanish American genre known as costumbrismo, which was devoted to describing and cataloguing national types. The nineteenth century produced an outpouring of visual material dedicated to illustrating the nature and customs of the new Spanish American republics, and costumbrismo was also a dominant literary form during much of the century. The workshop will consider the intersections between visual and literary representations of the nation and its inhabitants, as well as probing the tensions between representations produced for a domestic market and those aimed at an international audience. It forms part of a larger project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) examining the emergence of self-defined nations and the creation of national identities in Spanish America during its first century of independence. The workshop will take place at the University of Essex on 18 September 2009 and is organised by Dr Rebecca Earle and Professor Valerie Fraser. For further information, and to register, please visit the project website.
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