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"Tells a compelling story about an almost unknown body of work--Argentine women’s travel narratives--and also provokes the reader to think more deeply about the intersection between learning about one’s country and learning about oneself."-- Debra A. Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University, and author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican FictionIn this collection of writings by women both inside and outside of Argentina, Mónica Szurmuk has unearthed a rich and delightful tradition of travel writing. The selections, recorded from the period 1850-1930, include travelogues by European and North American women who visited Argentina alongside pieces by Argentinean women who describe trips to the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the interior of their own country.The pieces show that women writers in colonized and colonizing countries share literary and ideological perspectives and discuss race and gender in similar ways, often using the form of travel writing to discuss highly charged political issues.In addition to short introductions to each text and author, Szurmuk describes how women’s texts were co-opted to form an image of white wome

Who reads Women in Argentina : Early Travel Narratives?

Author

Monica Szurmuk, Mónica Szurmuk

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813031224

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Gender Studies