Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature

From Darío to Carpentier
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-349-53555-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the founding of the modern city, and the awkward relationship to both Western and indigenous traditions. Its argument is that one cannot so easily take leave of modernity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharman, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tradition and Modernity, Literature and Cultural Studies The Things that Travel: On Tradition and Modernity in Latin America Culture Is (Not) Ordinary: The Secrets of the Slow in the Public Sphere Fieldwork: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Tradition Modernismo, Positivism and (Dis)inheritance in the Discourse of Literary History Vallejo, Semicolonialism and Poetemporality Borges and a Differently-Coloured History Rulfo and the Mexican Roman Trinity This Is Not a Revolution: Carpentier on the Age of Enlightenment

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Sharman is Lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published on Spanish-American literature and critical theory, and is the editor of (1997).