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.