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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi The Things that Travel: On Tradition and Modernity in Latin America....Pages 1-25 Culture Is (Not) Ordinary: The Secrets of the Slow in the Public Sphere....Pages 27-47 Fieldwork: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Tradition....Pages 49-66 Modernismo, Positivism, and (Dis)inheritance in the Discourse of Literary History....Pages 67-83 Vallejo, Semicolonialism, and Poetemporality....Pages 85-107 Borges and a Differently Colored History....Pages 109-133 Rulfo and the Mexican Roman Trinity....Pages 135-158 This Is Not a Revolution: Carpentier on the Age of Enlightenment....Pages 159-178 Conclusion....Pages 179-186 Back Matter....Pages 187-240 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