The Plurality of Man: Cultural and Literary Approaches to 19th Cent. Latin American Masculinities. A Review of (eds.) A. Peluffo & I. Sánchez Prado's <em>Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina</em> (Madrid: Iberoamer.-Verveut, 2010)

Authors

  • Susan R. Hallstead University of Colorado—Boulder

Keywords:

gender, masculinities, Modernismo, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Adolfo Caminha, Jose Ingenieros, Amado Nervo, Ruben Dario

Abstract

This collective volume brings together leading scholars on Latin American cultural and literary studies to dialogue on frequently disparate views on the many meanings of and forms that masculinity took in Latin America’s nineteenth century.  And like any successful and well thought out collection, the volume’s range is impressive in historical and textual terms.  It includes essays that span from the struggles for national identity that were born out of the wars of independence to essays that consider the rise of mass culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the rise of Spanish American modernismo.  Similarly, the volume’s essays consider texts that range from literary founding documents (such as those of Juan Bautista Alberdi, Esteban Echeverría and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento) to less well known texts (such as Adolfo Caminha’s Bom-Crioulo) to late nineteenth century and early twentieth century essays with scientific aspirations (such as those of José María Ramos Mejía and José Ingenieros) and finally to the modernista literature of Amado Nervo, José Martí, Rubén Darío and José Asunción Silva, among other modernista writers.

Author Biography

Susan R. Hallstead, University of Colorado—Boulder

Susan R. Hallstead es docente en el Departamento de Español y Portugués en la Universidad de Colorado en Boulder. Se doctoró por la Universidad de Pittsburgh en 2006 con una tesis doctoral que se titula “FashionNation: The Politics of Dress and Gender in 19th Century Argentine Journalism (1829-1880).” La Dra. Hallstead ha publicado varios artículos y capítulos sobre la moda y la literatura en en siglo XIX en Argentina. Actualmente compila un libro con Regina Root que se titula Argentine Fashion: An Interdisciplinary Reader y escribe The Politics of Frivolity: Consumption and Identity in the 19th Century Argentina, proyecto de libro que se aboca al tema del consumo, la moda, y la construcción de la identidad en la literatura argentina.

Published

2012-05-15

How to Cite

Hallstead, S. R. (2012). The Plurality of Man: Cultural and Literary Approaches to 19th Cent. Latin American Masculinities. A Review of (eds.) A. Peluffo & I. Sánchez Prado’s <em>Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina</em> (Madrid: Iberoamer.-Verveut, 2010). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 9(3), 420–426. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/373

Issue

Section

Reviews: Gender Questions in the Southern Cone