Burden of Modernity - The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Carlos J. Alonso, Carlos J. (Professor of Spanish Alonso, Alonso Carlos J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780195118636
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511863-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); South America, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Central America, Mexico and Central America