Cabañas, Miguel A.
Dr. Miguel A. Cabañas is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut.
2008 0-7734-5240-0This book explores issues of representation and cultural negotiation in nineteenth-century travel narratives, focusing on writers from the United States who traveled to Latin America and Latin American writers who traveled to North America. Such a cross-cultural study of travel literature reveals the discursive processes of national formation in both the United States and Latin America. This book contains eight black and white photographs.