Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Chapter 15 Shame, Enslavement, and Identity
- Chapter 16 Narratives from Enslavement
- Chapter 17 Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence
- Chapter 18 Childhood, Race, and Gender
- Chapter 19 Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Chapter 18 - Childhood, Race, and Gender
from Part III - Intersectional Subjectivities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2023
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Chapter 15 Shame, Enslavement, and Identity
- Chapter 16 Narratives from Enslavement
- Chapter 17 Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence
- Chapter 18 Childhood, Race, and Gender
- Chapter 19 Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Summary
In nineteenth-century Latin America, the idea that indigenous people were like children (that is to say primitive, sentimental, and innocent) was advanced in the interest of contradicting another, equally harmful characterization – that of the “Indian” as a menacing figure that would unify the nation as an object of collective antagonism.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 280 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022