Nina Gerassi Navarro: 2 books
Pirate Novels
Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1999
In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost...
Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
The Politics of Observation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary...