Tropical Travel - Juan Carlos Vargas

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In This Remarkable Collection of Primary Documents The Author Professor of British And North American Literature At The University of Costa Rica Has Brought Together Twenty-One Articles on Central American Published In Four of The Most Prestigious North American Magazines of The Nineteenth Century Between 1854-1895. Taken From And These Articles Cover Six of The Seven Countries That Today Make Up Central Americaguatemala el Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica And Panama. Using a Wide Range of Documentation on The Development of Scientific Racism In The Mid-Nineteenth Century The Author Traces The Proliferation of Theories of Racial Superiority And Inferiority Showing How They Came to Influence Many Travelers to Central America And The Image of Central America Those Travelers Transmitted to Readers In Their Home Countries. Through an Extensive Analysis of The Illustrations In These Original Articles And of The Writings of Ephraim George Squier Chargé Daffaires For The United States Government to The Central American Republics In 1849 And In 1853 This Book Shows Just How Much Truth There Was In The Assertion By African Novelist Chinua Achebe When he Wrote That Travellers With Closed Minds Can Tell Us Little Except About Themselves. While Most Academic Studies of Travel Writing Come From The Metropolis This Study Speaks And Writes Back From The Vantage Point of The Scrutinized And Disparaged. ISBN: 9789968460880