Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature
Subtitle: From Dario to Carpentier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403974877
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Latin American Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; South America; American - Hispanic American; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Central & South American; Literary Criticism : American - Hispanic American; History and criticism; Latin America; Modernism (Literature); Spanish American literature
Description: "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.