Observation, Stillness, Deviation: The Theory and Practice of Travel in William Henry Hudson

The Nineteenth Century in the Americas Reading Group, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, is honored to host Javier Uriarte for a virtual talk. 

Uriarte is an associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. He is interested in theories of space and place, war studies, environmental studies, and the intersections between literary studies, history, geography, philosophy and politics. He specializes in the study of travel narratives, territorial imagination, war and representation, the Amazon, state consolidation and cultural production in 19th-century Latin America. 

In 2020, he published his first book, The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America, which examines the conceptualizations of space in war settings through the travel narratives of Richard Burton, William Henry Hudson, Francisco Moreno and Euclides da Cunha. The Desertmakers shows the central role of war in modernization and state formation processes in 19th-century Latin America.  

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