About
This website was designed by Emory College students enrolled in IDS385: Latin American Power, Printmaking, & Politics. Throughout this semester, we explored narratives that captured, furthered, and resisted Latin American and Caribbean national identities. Through close reading of historical and contemporary sources, we investigated how print media influenced political discourse in the Western Hemisphere.
A key component of this course involved research on primary sources held within the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library archives. The Rose Library, a nationally recognized repository, collects materials in areas such as poetry, African American history and culture, Southern politics, and the papers of notable literary figures.
This virtual exhibition attempts to showcase the depth and breath of the Rose Library’s Latin American holdings, and to argue for the expansion of these collections. Within this website, we offer a sampling of historical print media that prompted and responded to debates surrounding local, national, and cultural identities. 16th-century texts complement 20th-century documents in ways we hope are engaging and instructive.
Please enjoy this virtual survey of print media from and about Latin America and the Caribbean, which we divide here into four key themes:
1. The Outsider's Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Visitors
2. The Nation’s Debut: Latin America Representing itself on the Global Stage
3. The Politics of Persuasion: Print as a tool of Intra-hemispheric Diplomacy & Commerce
4. Reckoning with History: Defining National Culture[s]
