Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century [Hardcover]

This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century womens travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit womens space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American womans travel narrative is analyzed concomitantly with the narratives of a North American and a European writer. Contrary to the common assumption that Latin American women were powerless victims of imperialism, elite women had access to the predominant philosophies of their time, traveled around the globe, and wrote about their experiences.