Aarti Smith Madan: 1 book
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
National Territory, National Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building,...
