Session Details

Friday, 28 December

304. Desired Nations: Discourses of Emancipation in Spanish America

3:30–4:45 p.m., Michigan A, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900

Presiding: Alberto Julián Pérez, Texas Tech Univ.

1. “Alberdi y la nación posible,” Nicolas Shumway, Univ. of Texas, Austin

2. “Beware of Nationhood: The Dilemmas of Creole Liberal Reformism in Cuba, 1830–40,” Gerard L. Aching, New York Univ.

3. “Explorando los pliegues de la patria: Juana Manuela Gorriti y el proyecto nacional,” Vanesa Miseres, Vanderbilt Univ.

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