Title The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / Carlos J. Alonso.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 227 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
Contents	Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.
Summary	An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity.
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Language	Quoted passages in Spanish followed by English translation appear throughout.
Subject	Spanish American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Spanish American prose literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Spanish American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Narration (Rhetoric)
	Narration (Rhetoric)
	Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Latin America.
	Intellectual life.
	Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Alonso, Carlos J. Burden of modernity. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195118634 (DLC) 97037363 (OCoLC)37493547
ISBN	9780195353358 (electronic book)
	0195353358 (electronic book)
	1602562628
	9781602562622
	1423759931 (electronic book)
	9781423759935 (electronic book)
	1280471166
	9781280471162
	0195118634 (Cloth)
	9780195118636

Title The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / Carlos J. Alonso.

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