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- Title
Visiones y visualizaciones: la nación en tarjetas postales sudamericanas a fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX.
- Authors
Onken, Hinnerk
- Abstract
The article deals with the visual representation of South American nations in postcards in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite research being broad on nation and nationality, quite often these works are limited to textual media. And although some works do analyze visual media, there is a research gap as far as postcards and their role in the representation of nation and nationality and in the process of the construction of national identity are concerned. The article aims at closing this gap, a task which is essential because the images transmitted in the form of postcards circulated very widely: transnationally, transculturally, and overcoming class limits. Five groups of motives that (re-)present the South American nations in postcards are to be distinguished, examined and interpreted in this article.
- Subjects
POSTCARDS; SOUTH American history; NATIONAL character; SOUTH Americans; PHOTOGRAPHY &; history; NATION-state -- History; VISUAL culture; MODERNITY -- Social aspects; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; HISTORY; PICTURES
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 56, p47
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Essay