The classics in South America : five case studies / German Campos Munoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campos Munoz, German, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South America--Civilization--Classical influences.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western ? a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: plus ultra. Prospective classicisms in Latin America ; The class of the classics ; Greek and Latin America? A description of this project ; Note on the Translations

Chapter 1. Avatars. Preliminaries ; Acosta, the Elder ; The Antarctic Ovid ; The Austral Muse ; Conclusions: culling, cultivation, and culture

Chapter 2: Chorographers. Preliminaries ; The borders of the new world: Pedro Nolasco Mere's maps of the walls of Lima ; The language of the new world: Rodrígo de Valdés's Fundación y Grandeza ; Conclusions

Chapter 3. Personae. Preliminaries ; Hypermetric history: José Joaquín de Olmedo's Victoria de Junín ; An Ides of March in September: The 1828 conspiracy against Bolívar ; Conclusions: history, impersonation, prosopopoeia

Chapter 4. Mythographers. Preliminaries ; The other asterion ; The creation of a Carioca Orpheus ; Orpheus in color ; Confirmations, rebuttals, and antitheses ; Conclusions

Chapter 5. (Coda): Pedagogues. Preliminaries ; Monuments to the origin ; Back to Eryce.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350170261

1350170267

9781350170278

1350170275

OCLC:

1237652371