North of Eden
Romance and Conquest in Fanny Calderón de La Barca's Life in Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Angel Cabañas (0000-0002-2373-5144, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13645145.2005.9634964 |
| OpenAlex | W2079804992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay undertakes the analysis of a nineteenth-century woman traveller's book on Mexico. Fanny Calderón de La Barca and her husband, the Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, spent two years living there. The resulting narrative was published in 1843 as Life in Mexico and was endorsed by the historian William H. Prescott. This article analyses the question of gender and travel in this particular case study, focusing on the representation of romance and conquest in Calderón's book. The analysis situates the narrative in terms of the author's biography and the literary history of travel writing on Latin America and it reveals one of the central ambiguities of Calderón's text: on the one hand her critique of patriarchy, on the other, her apparent collusion with colonial discourses and mythologising of the Conquest. Her ethnological construction of Mexican society and her nostalgia for the figure of the outside ‘Conqueror’ prefigure the US ideology of manifest destiny that would bring about the US invasion of Mexico only a few years later
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Humanities · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Patriarchy · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Afro-Latin American Studies · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Travel Writing and Literature
Discourses of Difference
The Rhetoric of Empire
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
Discourses of difference
Life in Mexico. The Letters of Fanny Calderón de la Barca
Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
Life in Mexico during a Residence of Two Years in That Country
The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |