The Burden of Modernity

The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America

AvCarlos J. Alonso

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the uncompromising adoption of modernity. This commitment fueled a rhetorical crisis that followed the embracing of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstance that are themselves the negation of modernity. Through fresh readings of texts by Sarmiento, Mansilla, Quiroga, Vargos Llosa, Garcia Marquez, and others, Alonso tracks this textual dynamic in works from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-01
Mått:163 x 236 x 27 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Press
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195118636

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Preface and Acknowledgements1: Modernity as Ideal and Curse2: Reading Sarmiento: Once More, With Passion3: Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel4: Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's 'Una excursion a los indios Ranqueles'5: Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story6: The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's 'La tia Julia y el escribidor'7: The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish AmericaEpilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either)Bibliography