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Author: Carlos J. Alonso Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195118634 Category : Latin America Languages : en Pages : 240
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This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the uncompromising adoption of modernity. This commitment fueled a rhetorical crisis that followed the embracing of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstance that are themselves the negation of modernity. Through fresh readings of texts by Sarmiento, Mansilla, Quiroga, Vargos Llosa, Garcia Marquez, and others, Alonso tracks this textual dynamic in works from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author: Carlos J. Alonso Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195118634 Category : Latin America Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the uncompromising adoption of modernity. This commitment fueled a rhetorical crisis that followed the embracing of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstance that are themselves the negation of modernity. Through fresh readings of texts by Sarmiento, Mansilla, Quiroga, Vargos Llosa, Garcia Marquez, and others, Alonso tracks this textual dynamic in works from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author: William H. Katra Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838635995 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 380
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Argentina's talented 1837 generation and the multiple contributions of its members throughout five decades of public involvement. Author William Katra's objective is to elucidate historical and biographical concerns and the most important ideological aspects of their thought and writings.
Author: Elizabeth Powers Publisher: Bucknell University Press ISBN: 1611483670 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, 'the West,' has given rise to a triumphant universalist narrative that masks these disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other liberal rights.
Author: Marcela Echeverri Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110861499X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
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Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.
Author: William H. Katra Publisher: Arizona State University, Center for Latin American Studies ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Author: Francisco Vazquez Garcia Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317321189 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
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Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this ‘one-sex’ model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe.
Author: Rebecca Earle Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110737796X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 279
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This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the central features of the colonial project. The result is simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race.
Author: Carlos J. Alonso
Author: Carlos J. Alonso
Author: William H. Katra
Author: Elizabeth Powers
Author: Marcela Echeverri
Author: William H. Katra
Author: Francisco Vazquez Garcia
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Author: Boston Athenaeum
Author: Rebecca Earle
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library