The catastrophe of modernity
Subtitle: tragedy and the nation in Latin American literature
By: Patrick Dove.
Series: The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-; Rulfo, Juan.; Vallejo, César, 1892-1938.; Piglia, Ricardo.; Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Latin America.; Tragic, The, in literature.
Description: "The Catastrophe of Modernity examines four very different Latin American writers in the context of their respective national traditions. In a series of theoretical readings of texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Dove argues that the idea of tragedy offers new ways of understanding the relation between literature and the modern Latin American nation-state."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Binghamton.
Table of contents: title: The idea of tragedy : form and institution of modernity; title: Visages of the other : on a phantasmatic recurrence in Borges' "El Sur"; title: Exígele lo nuestro : transition and restitution in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo; title: The Catastrophe of modernity : Vallejo's Trilce, between indigenism and the Avant-garde; title: Heterotopic memory and the narration of disaster in Piglia.