Helen Delpar, Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States

摘要

'Since the seventeenth century', Helen Delpar writes in Looking South, 'Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious proselytisation, economic enterprise, and military conquest' (p. ix). In this well-conceptualised and well-executed book, Delpar extends that gaze to the cultural realm by tracing the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States from 1850 to 1975. This is the first book to undertake this valuable exercise and will, therefore, find a welcome audience in the field of Latin American studies.