Moros en la costa. Orientalismo en Latinoamérica

The first essay of the book, "La sombra del Oriente en la independencia americana" (The Shadow of the Orient during America's Independence) by Hernán G. H. Taboada, traces the diverse ways in which the image of the Orient gets appropriated by Latin American authors (in negative and positive ways) during the wars for independence in the nineteenth century. The second essay, by Iorge Barrueto, "El Indio en las tarjetas postales: metáforas visuales del miedo y la ansiedad política en Latinoamérica" (The Indian in Postcards: Visual Metaphors of Fear and the Political Anxiety in Latin America), contains a critical analysis of the role of photography and postcards in essentializing indigenous groups in Latin America as a foreign, exotic, and often dangerous "oriental" Other. De Sena's essay carefully illustrates the ways in which Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a member of the educated creole class in Argentina, created an orientalist discourse around their country's indigenous populations in order to further his own colonial projects for the newly independent nation.