Pueblos Enfermos - The Discourse of Illness in the Turn-of-the-Century Spanish and Latin American Essay

This book investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol (1897), Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel (1900), and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo (1909). Michael Aronna traces the reactions of these historically and rhetorically related colonial and postcolonial thinkers to the new economic, cultural, social, and political challenges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He shows how concepts of sexual degeneration, racial inferiority, immaturity, and gender prominent in contemporary philosophy and science were central to these writers' shared understanding of the nation as an organism vulnerable to "social pathogens."

About the author

Michael Aronna is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Vassar College.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Aronna
• Publisher: UNC Department of Romance Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2017
• EAN: 9780807892664
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9266-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: North Carolina Studies in the; North Carolina Studies in the
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous