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Dunaway, Margaret Leland.

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Romancing the stones: Textual representations of Mexican archeological sites, 1785-1880.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Romancing the stones: Textual representations of Mexican archeological sites, 1785-1880./
Author:	Dunaway, Margaret Leland.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A, page: 0209.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9514770

Romancing the stones: Textual representations of Mexican archeological sites, 1785-1880.
Dunaway, Margaret Leland.

Romancing the stones: Textual representations of Mexican archeological sites, 1785-1880. - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A, page: 0209.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1994.

With respect to Mexico, the poetry and politics of space present many intriguing aspects for study. After Conquest the ancient landscape of Anahuac was transformed by Spanish Imperial projects, and the vestiges of Mexico's indigenous civilizations that remained were demolished or obscured by nature or by design. Eventually, as is evident in the verse and prose written by twentieth-century Mexican poets and authors such as Octavio Paz, Carlos Pellicer, Efrain Huerta, Rosario Castellanos and Carlos Fuentes, the ancient space assumed a particular importance in text. The presence of these ancient spaces in Mexico's contemporary literary landscape is, I believe, the result of a process of incorporation. This study examines the process by which the archaeological sites and other "ancient spaces" were observed, described, imagined and later animated by the (re)creation of historical, legendary or fictitious characters who were placed in these settings in textual accounts of place-specific legends and in historical novels. These texts helped fix the ancient spaces into Mexico's literary landscape and national consciousness and encouraged the nineteenth-century Mexican reader to feel connected to these places and to Mexico's indigenous past.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1024734
Literature, Latin American.

Romancing the stones: Textual representations of Mexican archeological sites, 1785-1880.
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520 $a With respect to Mexico, the poetry and politics of space present many intriguing aspects for study. After Conquest the ancient landscape of Anahuac was transformed by Spanish Imperial projects, and the vestiges of Mexico's indigenous civilizations that remained were demolished or obscured by nature or by design. Eventually, as is evident in the verse and prose written by twentieth-century Mexican poets and authors such as Octavio Paz, Carlos Pellicer, Efrain Huerta, Rosario Castellanos and Carlos Fuentes, the ancient space assumed a particular importance in text. The presence of these ancient spaces in Mexico's contemporary literary landscape is, I believe, the result of a process of incorporation. This study examines the process by which the archaeological sites and other "ancient spaces" were observed, described, imagined and later animated by the (re)creation of historical, legendary or fictitious characters who were placed in these settings in textual accounts of place-specific legends and in historical novels. These texts helped fix the ancient spaces into Mexico's literary landscape and national consciousness and encouraged the nineteenth-century Mexican reader to feel connected to these places and to Mexico's indigenous past.
520 $a While first observed and described in the interest of Imperial projects of control, after independence Mexico's ancient spaces attracted many individuals, some of whom produced textual (and visual) representations of the sites which were published in popular literary journals of the nineteenth century. Many of the better-known ancient spaces were then adapted by literary means and used as settings for the action in historical novels. Animating the spaces in this way reduced the psychological distance between the nineteenth-century Mexican reader and a particular point in the ancient landscape. At root, the process of incorporation of the ancient space into Mexico's literary and psychological landscapes is one by which the personal experience of encounter is transformed through text into an act which has public and national significance.
520 $a The information contained in this study, while most pertinent to analyses of nineteenth-century Mexican literature and national identity formation, could also be applied to studies of pilgrimage; literary considerations of the opacity of language in colonial and post-colonial era texts and to issues surrounding cultural property and the appropriation of indigenous art and culture.
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