Postmodernity in Latin America - The Argentine Paradigm

"Colas dares enter the postmodernism debate and ably takes on its leading thinkers. Not only literary critics and theoreticians, but historians, political scientists, and sociologists, too, will have to cite this study as an informed and solidly grounded foray into their respective disciplines."--Jonathan Tittler, Cornell University

Sommario

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1. Resisting Postmodernity 1

I. Latin American Modernity 21

2. Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique 23

3. Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap 50

4. Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer arana and the Argentine National Left 76

5. Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity 100

II. Argentine Postmodernity 119

6. Resucitatating History in Respiracion artificial 121

7. The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron 149

III. Conclusion 159

8. Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities 161

Notes 173

Bibliography 201

Index 221

Info autore

Santiago Colás is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Santiago Colas, Santiago Colás, Santiago Col's, Santiago Colas
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.11.1994
• EAN: 9780822315087
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1508-7
• Pagine: 240
• Peso: 635 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; EMC Masterpiece Series Access; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata