Geographical Discourses and Territorial Representations in Latin American Writing

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, geography studies contributed to the development of a geographical imagination connected to a renewed sense of national and regional identity. Mainly influenced by German Determinism and French Possibilism, geography introduced new concepts such as the relationship between humans and their environment, as well as the notion of regional studies. From a theoretical perspective drawn from a variety of disciplines—literary criticism, cultural studies, art history, and cultural geography—this panel examines the relationship between territorial identity and geography in Latin American texts from the late-sixteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Aarti S Madan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Chair

• Carla E Giaudrone, Rutgers University

Individual Presentations

• La retórica del espacio en las cartas de viaje del siglo XVI - J Manuel Gomez, Iona College

• Zeballos’s Canon: Literary and Geographic Notes in the Boletín del Instituto Geográfico Argentino - Aarti S Madan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• La sublime misión del geógrafo decimonónico: proyectos de nación desde las alturas andinas - Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State University

• Landscape Interpretation and Social Context in Juan José Morosoli - Carla E Giaudrone, Rutgers University