Angela Perez-Mejia. A Geography of ...

Angela Perez-Mejia. A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to southward America, 1780-1849. Trans. Dick Cluster. Albany: SUNY P 2004 167 pp ISBN 0-791-6013-4 $4000

For many years we have had a monolithic notion of what "Latin America" was all about, a generic boundary that includes twenty countries, each with its avow characteristics, idiosyncrasies, history, and ethnic constituencies. We have also had the presumptuous idea that there is similar a thing as an "expert" in what we call "Latin American Studies" in the United States--an idea that