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Format: xiv, 224 p. ;

ISBN: 9780822382669 , 0822382660

Series Statement: Post-contemporary interventions

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-220) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Colás, Santiago Postmodernity in Latin America Durham, N.C : Duke University Press, 1994 ISBN 0822315084

Additional Edition: ISBN 0822315203

Language: English

Subjects: Romance Studies

Keywords: Argentinien ; Literatur ; Postmoderne ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.1215/9780822382669

URL: Volltext

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822382669?locatt=mode:legacy

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

ISBN: 9780822382669

Series Statement: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Content: Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism.Focusing on literature, Colás uses Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration to exemplify the cultural coordinates of postmodernity in Argentina. Informed by the cycle of political transformation beginning with the Cuban Revolution, including its effects on Peronism, to the period of dictatorship, and finally to redemocratization, Colás’s examination of this literary progression leads to the reconstruction of three significant moments in the history of Argentina. His analysis provokes both a revised understanding of that history and the recognition that multiple meanings of postmodernity must be understood in ways that incorporate the complexity of regional differences.Offering a new voice in the debate over postmodernity, one that challenges that debate’s leading thinkers, Postmodernity in Latin America will be of particular interest to students of Latin American literature and to scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface and Acknowledgments -- , 1. Resisting Postmodernity -- , I. Latin American Modernity -- , 2. Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique -- , 3. Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap -- , 4. Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer arana and the Argentine National Left -- , 5. Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity -- , II. Argentine Postmodernity -- , 6. Resuscitating History in Respiracion artificial -- , 7. The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron -- , III. Conclusion -- , 8. Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822382669

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382669

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382669

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Format: 1 online resource (242 p.)

ISBN: 1-283-06286-0 , 9786613062864 , 0-8223-8266-0

Series Statement: Post-contemporary interventions

Content: Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been bot

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Resisting postmodernity -- , Latin American modernity: , Beyond Western modernity?: Rayuela as critique -- , Toward a Latin American modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the leap -- , Latin American modernity in crisis: El beso de la mujer arana and the Argentine National Left -- , Beyond Valentin's dream: from the crisis of Latin American modernity -- , Argentine postmodernity: , Resuscitating history in Respiracion artificial -- , The importance of writing history; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron -- , Conclusion: , Speculations toward articulating Latin American postmodernities -- , Postmodernities. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-1520-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-1508-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822382669