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.

Product details

• Authors: Julio Ramos
• Assisted by: John D Blanco (Translation), John D. Blanco (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822319818
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1981-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Weight: 753 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Politikwissenschaft, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Latin America / General