Julio Ramos

Divergent Modernities

Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Übersetzer: Blanco, John D

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Produktbeschreibung

"With an innovative approach to the foundational intellectuals of Latin American modernity, Julio Ramos contributes to a rethinking of the intersections that constitute "Latinoamericanismo" of the twentieth century."--Nestor G. Canclini, author of "Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780822319818
• ISBN-10: 0822319810
• Artikelnr.: 34011784

Autorenporträt

Julio Ramos is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator’s Preface
Foreword / José David Saldívar
Prologue
Part I.
1. The Other’s Knowledge: Writing and Orality in Sarmiento’s Facundo
2. Knowledge-(as)-Said: Language and Politics in Andrés Bello
3. Fragmentation of the Republic of Letters
4. Limits of Autonomy: Journalism and Literature
5. Decorating the City: The Chronicle and Urban Experience
Part II.
Introduction: Martí and His Journey to the United States
6. Machinations: Literature and Technology
7. “This Cardboard Tabloid Life”: Literature and the Masses
8. Culturalism and Latinoamericanismo
9. “Nuestra América”: The Art of Good Governance
10. The Repose of Heroes: On Poetry and War in José Martí
11. Migratories
Appendixes
Translations of Three Texts by José Martí
Appendix 1 / Our America
Appendix 2 / Prologue to Poema del Niágara
Appendix 3 / Coney Island
Index