Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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Contents |
Resisting postmodernity -- 1. Latin American modernity: Beyond Western modernity?: Rayuela as critique -- Toward a Latin American modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the leap -- Latin American modernity in crisis: El beso de la mujer araña and the Argentine National Left -- Beyond Valentin's dream: from the crisis of Latin American modernity -- 2. Argentine postmodernity: Resuscitating history in Respiración artificial -- The importance of writing history; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Perón -- 3. Conclusion: Speculations toward articulating Latin American postmodernities -- Postmodernities |
Summary |
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been bot |
Analysis |
Spanish fiction |
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Argentina |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Cortázar, Julio. Rayuela.
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Puig, Manuel. Beso de la mujer araña.
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Piglia, Ricardo. Respiración artificial.
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SUBJECT |
Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne gnd |
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Andrae, A. gnd |
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Beso de la mujer araña (Puig, Manuel) fast |
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Rayuela (Cortázar, Julio) fast |
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Respiración artificial (Piglia, Ricardo) fast |
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Lateinamerika gnd |
Subject |
Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Literature and society -- Argentina
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Literature and society -- Latin America
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Postmodernismo (Literatura) -- Argentina
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Argentine fiction
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Literature and society
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmoderne
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Postmodernisme.
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Spaans.
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Letterkunde.
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Argentina
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Latin America
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Argentinien
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
94011348 |
ISBN |
9780822382669 |
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0822382660 |
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1283062860 |
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9781283062862 |
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9786613062864 |
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6613062863 |
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0822315084 |
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9780822315087 |
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