Tradition and modernity in Spanish American literature : from Darío to Carpentier

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Introduction: Tradition and Modernity, Literature and Cultural Studies......Page 10 Introduction......Page 18 Modernity as Material Reality and as a Philosophico-Aesthetic Concept......Page 20 Latin American modernidad......Page 28 Hybrid Cultures and One Postmodern Critique of Modernity......Page 32 A Note on Names: Postmodernism, Postmodernity, or Late Capitalism......Page 34 Modernity under Erasure, or, the Limits of Postmodern Relativism......Page 36 2 Culture Is (Not) Ordinary: The Secrets of the Slow in the Public Sphere......Page 44 La ideología de lo culto moderno......Page 46 Note on the Word Culture......Page 50 A Paradigmatic History of Latin American Cultural Studies......Page 51 Modernism and Hegemony......Page 55 Globalization and the Fast and Slow Economies of Art......Page 59 3 Fieldwork: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Tradition......Page 66 To Create Is to Resist......Page 67 The Immanence of Cultural Studies and Hermeneutics......Page 69 The Question of Context......Page 72 The Politics of the Question of Context, or, Avant-Garde Subalternism and the Problem of Tradition......Page 75 Articulation versus Homology......Page 80 History and Modernity......Page 84 Autonomy Domine......Page 87 El cuchillo divisor......Page 91 LEMA: Arte y progreso......Page 93 History and the Proper Name......Page 96 Rituals......Page 97 5 Vallejo, Semicolonialism, and Poetemporality......Page 102 Postcolonial Theory on Semicolonial Times......Page 103 The Ghost of Lenin......Page 108 Symbolist Imperial Nostalgias......Page 110 The (Peruvian) Western Discourse of Modernity......Page 113 Poetemporality......Page 116 Two Alternatives for Trilce VI......Page 118 The Peruvian (Western) Discourse of Modernity......Page 123 6 Borges and a Differently Colored History......Page 126 The History of Eternity......Page 128 The Question of Modernity (and Tradition)......Page 130 A Personal (Platonic) Theory of Eternity......Page 135 The Eternal Return: '44, '46, '43, '44, '46 . . .......Page 139 The Context of Nationalism......Page 143 Otra historia......Page 148 Transculturation......Page 152 Pedro Páramo and the Mexican Roman Trinity......Page 155 "Luvina" and the Time of Tradition......Page 164 The Origins of Technique......Page 168 Demo(cra)tic Design......Page 171 Conclusion......Page 174 8 This Is Not a Revolution: Carpentier on the Age of Enlightenment......Page 176 Of Ripe Immaturity: Enlightenment and Popular Culture......Page 178 The Two Functions of Religion: Birthright and Grand Narrative......Page 180 The Grand Narrative of Nature......Page 184 Narrative Art and Magic......Page 192 Conclusion......Page 196 Notes......Page 204 Bibliography......Page 238 B......Page 248 C......Page 249 E......Page 250 I......Page 251 M......Page 252 P......Page 254 S......Page 255 V......Page 256 Z......Page 257 "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."--Publisher's website

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.

Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed as a condition of the first half of the 20th 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