UID:
almafu_9959677295102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (319 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-9857-5
Inhalt:
Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood.Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known and respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano and Nuyorican habitats; from turn of the century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence and dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera and Brazil’s move beyond monarchy; and from the precarious survival of Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (June 1996), this expanded edition includes a new introduction by Doris Sommer and a new essay by Vincente Rafael. Viewed together, these essays reveal a cultural richness that is sure to interest literary scholars and Latin Americanists alike.Contributors. Carlos J. Alonso, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, John Beverley, Debra A. Castillo, Arcadio Diaz-Quiñones, Juan Flores, Mary M. Gaylord, José Limón, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello, Antonio Mazzotti, Walter D. Mignolo, Sylvia Molloy, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincente Rafael, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Roberto Schwarz, Diana Taylor, Nancy Vogeley
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Contents ; Doris Sommer / The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America ; Josefina Ludmer / The Corpus Delicti ; Mary Louise Pratt / Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile ; Roberto Schwarz / The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis ; Walter D. Mignolo / Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism ; José Antonio Mazzotti / The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Mary M. Gaylord / The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections Carlos J. Alonso / The Burden of Modernity ; Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones / Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonomista Tradition ; Susana Rotker / Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of Simón Rodríguez ; Francine Masiello / Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's Fin de Siglo ; Nancy Vogeley / Italian Opera in Early National Mexico ; John Beverley / The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) ; Debra A. Castillo / Reading Loose Women Reading
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Diana Taylor / ""Damnable Iteration"": The Traps of Political Spectacle Antonio Benítez-Rojo / José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project ; Vicente L. Rafael / Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines ; José E. Limón / Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance ; Julio Ramos / The Repose of Heroes ; Sylvia Molloy / His America, Our America: José Martí Reads Whitman ; Juan Flores / Broken English Memories
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-2344-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-2310-9
Sprache:
Englisch
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Electronic books
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DOI:
10.1515/9780822398578
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398578
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398578
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822398578?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398578
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398578
