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.
Author Biography
Ana Peluffo specializes in affect and the emotions in Latin American literatures and cultures, transnational feminisms and nineteenth-century cultural studies. She is the author of En clave emocional: Cultura y afecto en America Latina (2016) and Lagrimas andinas: Genero y virtud republicana (2005). She has edited or co-edited Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en America Latina (2010); Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI (2012); Su afectisima discipula, Cartas a Ricardo Palma (2018) and Afecto, redes y epistolarios (2018). Ronald Briggs studies the convergence of education and literary theory. Publications include Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar: Simon Rodriguez and the American Essay at Revolution and The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910 (2017) which was awarded the Best Book Prize by the Nineteenth-Century section of the Latin American Studies Association in 2018.
