Postmodernity in Latin America : the Argentine paradigm / Santiago Colas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colás, Santiago, 1965-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cortázar, Julio. Rayuela.

Cortázar, Julio.

Puig, Manuel. Beso de la mujer araña.

Puig, Manuel.

Piglia, Ricardo. Respiración artificial.

Piglia, Ricardo.

Argentine fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Argentine fiction.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Literature and society--Argentina.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

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

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 arana and the Argentine National Left

Beyond Valentin's dream: from the crisis of Latin American modernity

2. Argentine postmodernity: Resuscitating history in Respiracion artificial

The importance of writing history; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron

3. Conclusion: Speculations toward articulating Latin American postmodernities

Postmodernities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-220) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062864

9781283062862

1283062860

9780822382669

0822382660

OCLC:

191222324