Galápagos

Imaginarios de la evolución textual en las islas encantadas
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-55753-877-2
Verlag: Purdue University Press

Buch, Spanisch, 217 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galápagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Galápagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayorga, Esteban

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Esteban Mayorga, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Spanish Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages.