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
- Chapter 8 Imagining Popular Sovereignty
- Chapter 9 The Arithmetic of Sentiment
- Chapter 10 Costumbrismo As Political Ethnography
- Chapter 11 The Disruptive Andean
- Chapter 12 The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing
- Chapter 13 Hygiene, Good Manners, and the Public Body
- Chapter 14 Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Chapter 14 - Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation
from Part II - Affective Communities
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
- Chapter 8 Imagining Popular Sovereignty
- Chapter 9 The Arithmetic of Sentiment
- Chapter 10 Costumbrismo As Political Ethnography
- Chapter 11 The Disruptive Andean
- Chapter 12 The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing
- Chapter 13 Hygiene, Good Manners, and the Public Body
- Chapter 14 Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Summary
Elizabeth Povinelli has asserted that what she calls “the intimate event,” as construed by modern, Western societies, “is a semiotic operation that creates a subject, produces multiple linkages between that subject, its economy, and government, and governs the operation of these linkages” (192).
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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 221 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022