Capital fictions : the literature of Latin America's export age / Ericka Beckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckman, Ericka, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American fiction--History and criticism.

Latin American fiction.

Economics and literature--Latin America.

Economics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas, capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major

Contents:

Production: Imagining the export republic

Consumption: Modernismo's import catalogues

Money I: Financial crisis and the stock market novel

Money II: Bankruptcy and decadence

Exploitation: A journey to the export real.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4831-3

0-8166-8188-0

OCLC:

833765683