Defining and Defying Borders explores the contested nature of borders and boundaries in early twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American journals, magazines, and newspapers, highlighting the importance of print media for understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production. It presents inclusive paradigms that transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire.

Format: Hardback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 13 February 2024
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.

Defining and Defying Borders: Unraveling the Complex Postcolonial Relationship between Spain and Latin America through Print Media

Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.

Weight: 488g
Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487548629