Burden of Modernity The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America

Name: Burden of Modernity The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America
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ISBN: 9780195118636

ISBN-10: 0195118634

ISBN-13: 9780195118636

Edition: 1998

Authors: Carlos J. Alonso

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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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List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/24/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English




Modernity as Ideal and Curse



Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion



Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel



Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursion a los indios Ranqueles



Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story



The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tia fulia y el escribidor



The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America


Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either)


Notes


Bibliography


Index