Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America

María del Pilar Blanco is associate professor of Spanish American literature and fellow and tutor in Spanish at Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination. Joanna Page is a Reader in Latin American literature and visual culture at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several books, including Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Latin America's scientific landscapes
Introduction
María del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page
1. Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination Gabriela Nouzeilles
2. Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada (1868-1876) María del Pilar Blanco
3. Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s Jens Andermann
II. Latin America as the site of knowledge production Introduction
4. Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico Yarí Pérez Marín
5. Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1596-1797 Heidi V. Scott
6. Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizán's Medical Project Edward Chauca
III. Science and the modern nation
Introduction
7.Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race Lina del Castillo
8. "Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata Miguel de Asúa
9. Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s Hernán ComastriI
V. Utopian convergences between science and the artsIntroduction
10. Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines Soledad Quereilhac
11. Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson Julio Prieto
12. The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live ByJoanna Page
V. Science, epistemology, and the critique of modernity
Introduction
13. Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors Carlos Fonseca Suárez
14. The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui Brais Outes-León
15. Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Non-linear Universe Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Bibliography
Index