Divergent Modernities - Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

"With an innovative approach to the foundational intellectuals of Latin American modernity, Julio Ramos contributes to a rethinking of the intersections that constitute "Latinoamericanismo" of the twentieth century."--Nestor G. Canclini, author of "Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity"

List of contents

Translator’s Preface

Foreword / José David Saldívar

Prologue

Part I.

1. The Other’s Knowledge: Writing and Orality in Sarmiento’s Facundo

2. Knowledge-(as)-Said: Language and Politics in Andrés Bello

3. Fragmentation of the Republic of Letters

4. Limits of Autonomy: Journalism and Literature

5. Decorating the City: The Chronicle and Urban Experience

Part II.

Introduction: Martí and His Journey to the United States

6. Machinations: Literature and Technology

7. “This Cardboard Tabloid Life”: Literature and the Masses

8. Culturalism and Latinoamericanismo

9. “Nuestra América”: The Art of Good Governance

10. The Repose of Heroes: On Poetry and War in José Martí

11. Migratories

Appendixes

Translations of Three Texts by José Martí

Appendix 1 / Our America

Appendix 2 / Prologue to Poema del Niágara

Appendix 3 / Coney Island

Index

About the author

Julio Ramos is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Berkeley.

Summary

Offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history, literature, and nation-building in the modern Latin American context and also takes crucial steps toward the development of a truly comparative inter-American cultural criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Julio Ramos
• Assisted by: John D Blanco (Translation), John D. Blanco (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822319900
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1990-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education