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Author Ramos, Julio

Title Divergent modernities : culture and politics in nineteenth-century Latin America / Julio Ramos ; translated by John D. Blanco ; foreword by José David Saldívar
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xlvi, 328 pages)
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Post-contemporary interventions.
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Contents 1 Other's Knowledge: Writing and Orality in Sarmiento's Facundo 3 -- 2 Knowledge-(as)-Said: Language and Politics in Andres Bello 23 -- 3 Fragmentation of the Republic of Letters 41 -- 4 Limits of Autonomy: Journalism and Literature 78 -- 5 Decorating the City: The Chronicle and Urban Experience 112 -- Introduction: Marti and His Journey to the United States 151 -- 6 Machinations: Literature and Technology 160 -- 7 "This Cardboard Tabloid Life": Literature and the Masses 187 -- 8 Culturalism and Latinoamericanismo 219 -- 9 "Nuestra America": The Art of Good Governance 251 -- 10 Repose of Heroes: On Poetry and War in Jose Marti 268 -- 11 Migratories 280 -- Appendix 1 Our America 295 -- Appendix 2 Prologue to Poema del Niagara 304 -- Appendix 3 Coney Island 318
Summary A classic work, now available in English for the first time, that examines major intellectual figures including Sarmiento, Bello and Marti and the interrelations of literature, history, and nation-building in the origins of Latin American modernism in the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century
Politics and literature.
Spanish American literature.
Kultur
Politik
Latin America.
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822381099
0822381095
Other Titles Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina. English
Culture and politics in nineteenth-century Latin America