The accidental ethnographers : race, recording technology, and nature in modern Latin American fiction
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation, "The Accidental Ethnographers: Race, Recording Technology, and Nature in Modern Latin American Fiction, " examines how fictional works of early 20th century Cuban, Colombian, and Brazilian criollo authors were shaped by these authors' use of recording technologies in their ethnographic endeavors. I show that the process of perceiving the world through cameras and tape recorders, and interacting with unfamiliar places, cultures, and cosmologies, prompted these authors to incorporate Afro-descendant and indigenous worldviews in their texts. These fictional texts enable the conception of a reality that does not necessarily subscribe to the anthropocentric division between human culture and the natural world, commonly found in 19th-century literary naturalism. With this research, I participate in contemporary debates on technology's impact on literature and, by extension, the role of technology in defining Latin American fiction.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hernandez, Daniel |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Briceño, Ximena |
| Degree committee member | Barletta, Vincent |
| Degree committee member | Briceño, Ximena |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Culture |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel Hernández Guzmán. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Culture. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hb582hj0242 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Daniel Hernandez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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