| Journal: | Historia y memoria |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000354250 |
| ISSN: | 2027-5137 |
| Authors: | Meyer Rausch, Jane1 |
| Institutions: | 1University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. Estados Unidos de América |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Volumen: | 3 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 111-128 |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Histórico, analítico |
| Spanish abstract | El trabajo analiza libros escritos por tres mujeres nacidas en los Estados Unidos, quienes vivieron en Colombia en alguna época entre los años de 1920 y 1950 para determinar el valor potencial de esos textos como fuente de información para los historiadores de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Las tres autoras y sus obras son: Blair Niles: Colombia. Land of Miracles (Nueva York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939); Virginia Paxton: Penthouse in Bogotá (Nueva York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943); y Nancy Bell Bates: East of the Andes and West of Nowhere: A Naturalist's Wife in Colombia (Nueva York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1947). Después de evaluar los libros, el trabajo concluye que si no siempre comprendían lo que observaban, cada autora registra información valiosa que se habría perdido de otra forma |
| English abstract | The purpose of this essay is to review books written by three North American women who traveled to Colombia between 1920 and 1950 in order to assess their potential value as a source of information for historians of the first half of the twentieth century. The three authors and their books are: Blair Niles, Colombia: Land of Miracles (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939), Virginia Paxton, Penthouse in Bogotá (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943), and Nancy Bell Bates, East of the Andes and West of Nowhere: A Naturalist's Wife in Colombia) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947). After examining the books, the essay concludes that although the authors did not always understand what they observed, they each recorded valuable data that might otherwise have been lost |
| Disciplines: | Historia, Literatura y lingüística, Sociología |
| Keyword: | Historia social, Narrativa, Sociología de la mujer, Colombia, 1920-1950, Niles, Blair, "Colombia: Land of Miracles", Paxton, Virginia, "Penthouse in Bogota", Bates, Nancy Bell, "East of the Andes and West of Nowhere: A Naturalist's wife in Colombia", Mujeres, Extranjeros, Viajeros |
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