Collecting from the margins : material culture in a Latin American context /
edited by Maria Mercedes Andrade.
- 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / by Maria Mercedes Andrade -- Sacking the botanical expedition: natural and military history in the first museum of Colombia / by Felipe Martinez-Pinzon -- An "immense museum" or an "immense tomb?": war and the rhetoric of continuity in the writings of Francisco Moreno / by Javier Uriarte -- Of bayaderas, congais, and fumerias: "virtual" collecting in De Marsella a Tokio: sensaciones de Egipto, La India, La China y El Japon by Enrique Gomez Carrillo / by Olga Vilella -- "That heteroclite assembly": collecting, modernity, and "the savage mind" in De sobremesa / by Maria Mercedes Andrade -- Postcards, autographs, and modernismo: Ruben Dario on popular collecting and textual practices / by Andrew Reynolds -- Delmira Agustini, gender, and the poetics of collecting / by Shelley Garrigan -- "I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people's struggle": Pablo Neruda as collector, translator, and poet / by Kelly Austin -- Antropofagia, bricolage, collage: Oswald De Andrade, Augusto De Campos and the author as collector / by Fernando Perez Villalon -- From the space of the wunderkammer to Macondo's Wonder rooms: the collection of marvels in Cien Anos de Soledad / by Jeronimo Arellano -- Collecting revisited (and left behind): the treasure chambers in Ruy Guerra's Erendira and Portugal S.A. / by Ilka Kressner.
9781611487343 (e-book)
Collectors and collecting--Latin America. Material culture--Latin America. Collectors and collecting in literature. Material culture in literature. Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century