Seeing the Maya in the American Parlor: Illustrations as a Parallel Text in John Lloyd Stephens' <i>Incidents of Travel in Central America</i> (1841)

Lenz, William E.

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“…Frenkel also explains how the travel discourse generalized ideas about a certain area and a group of people [10]. William E. Lenz shows how illustrations within texts allowed a wide range of readers to participate in the writers' journey, which demonstrates that wide published books could effectively manipulate the public culture [11]. Said's argument that political and cultural hegemony empowers the superior group to stereotype and generalize the inferior group of people explains how Griffin's Mexico of To-day implied that there existed a U.S. hegemonic position toward Mexico [2].…”

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The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Kim¹

2016

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Positioning itself as a guardian of the Western Hemisphere from European powers, the United States recognized and claimed its power and superiority over newly independent Latin American nations. This political agenda was based on perceived U.S. superiority and was justification for declaring war on Mexico in 1846. With the development of railroads, telegraph, and print during the mid-nineteenth century, the common misperceptions about Mexico disseminated nationwide. Griffin's Mexico of Today (1886) helped create this discriminatory position. Using postcolonial theory, this research analyzes texts and images in Mexico of Today , reviewing the comparative contemporary literature and images to argue how the cultural and political hegemony of the United States over Mexico during the late nineteenth century was represented in texts like Griffin's.

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The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Kim¹

2016

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“…ican Parlor: Illustrations as a Parallel Text in John Lloyd Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America (1841)" has been crucial in helping me to perform the analysis[11]. Lenz considers the visual impact of images in travel literature.…”

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Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70

Tuley¹

2016

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After the U.S.-Mexican War, internal power struggles weakened the Mexico, and France forcefully established a government in 1862. In 1867, the United States (U.S.) invoked the Monroe Doctrine and placed military and political support behind exiled Mexican president Benito Juárez. This political action pressured France to withdraw from Mexico and demonstrated how the U.S. exercised on-going hegemony over Mexico. This paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans's Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism. Through the lens of postcolonial theory, the images are closely examined and analyzed for what they reveal about U.S. relations with Mexico.

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Seeing the Maya in the American Parlor: Illustrations as a Parallel Text in John Lloyd Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America (1841)

Cited by 2 publications

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The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70

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