Bøker av Mariselle Melendez

Constructing and controlling women in Colonial South America

Studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). Mariselle Melendez analyses elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary.