The burden of modernity: the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America
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Main Author: Alonso, Carlos J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1998
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index
Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.
An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 227 pages)
ISBN:0195118634
0195353358
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1423759931
1602562628
9780195118636
9780195353358
9781280471162
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