Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I: Frontier Identities, 1837-1880; 1. A House, a Home, a Nation: Mariquite Sanchez's Recuerdos del Buenos Ayres Virreynal; 2. Queen of the Interior: Lina Beck-Bernard's Le Rio Parana; Part II: Shifting Frontiers, 1880-1900; 3. Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia's Recuerdos de Viaje: "Recordar es Vivir"; 4. Interlude in the Frontier: Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia 5. Traveling/Teaching/Writing: Jennie Howard's In Distant Climes and Other Years; Part III: Shifting Identities, 1900-1930; 6. Traveler/Governess/Expatriate: Emma de la Barra's Stella; 7. Globe-Trotting Single Women; 8. The Spiritual Trip: Delfina Bunge de Galvez's Tierras del Mar Azul

About the Author

Monica Szurmuk is assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of the anthology Mujeres y Viaje: Escritos y Testimonios, published in Buenos Aires, and her work has appeared in English and Spanish in journals such as Nuevo Texto Critico and English Language Journal.

Reviews

"Tells a compelling story about an almost unknown body of work-Argentine women's travel narratives-and also provokes the reader to think more deeply about the intersection between learning about one's country and learning about oneself." - Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University, and author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction"