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Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines) New Edition

by William E. Lenz (Author)
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As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841, 1843) the sources of American perceptions of Central America and contributes directly to current redefinitions of American nationalism, Manifest Destiny, and hemispheric imperialism. The study challenges modern readers to examine critically the cultural stereotypes that the nineteenth century embraced and that often formed the basis for national policy. By reading Stephens closely, by locating him within a larger cultural dialogue about such crucial issues as national identity, race relations, Manifest Destiny, and historical representation, we can better understand past and present national attitudes toward peoples and nations south of the U.S. territorial border. Anticipating many of the issues that would give rise to the war with Mexico and then to the U.S. Civil War, Stephens sees the racial landscape of Central America in stark categories. Writing travel narratives about Central America and reading narratives written by an American traveling in Central America are acts of cultural imperialism that result in both writer and reader implicitly possessing Central America, absorbing its Mayan history and contemporary diversity into an American national mythology. Central America becomes, through Stephens’s acts of exploring and inscribing, an imaginative extension of the United States and the Maya, the original New World Americans. Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny encourages twenty-first-century readers to untangle these often conflicting acts of exploration, inscription, and imagination.
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  1. ISBN-10
    1433123312
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1433123313
  3. Edition
    New
  4. Publisher
    Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  5. Publication date
    August 30, 2013
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    194 pages
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William E. Lenz is Pontious Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities at Chatham University. Since 1992, he has traveled abroad with students to the Galapagos Islands, Haiti, Belize, and Guatemala. He is the author of Fast Talk and Flush Times: The Confidence Man as a Literary Convention (1985) and The Poetics of the Antarctic: A Study in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Perceptions (1995).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; New edition (August 30, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1433123312
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1433123313
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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