The Burden of Modernity
The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America
Carlos J. Alonso
Price: £32.99 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511863-6
Publication date: 1 October 1998
240 pages, 234x156 mm
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| - 'Susan Martin-Marquez's book is a wide-ranging revisionary project, ... The detailing is as meticulous and exciting as it is necessary and salutary. ... Key texts of feminist film theory are deftly summarized and their ideas, misconceptions, and mismatches with Spanish contexts illuminatingly placed in the argument, often side by side with the riches of textual archive work.' - Chris Perriam,
MLR, 96.I,2001
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| Description | | 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. |
| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgements
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Modernity as Ideal and Curse
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Reading Sarmiento: Once More, With Passion
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Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel
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Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's 'Una excursion a los indios Ranqueles'
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Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story
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The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's 'La tia Julia y el escribidor'
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The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America
Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either)
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
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Carlos J. Alonso, Professor of Spanish, Columbia University
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