The Burden of Modernity
The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 October 1998
- ISBN 9780195118636
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x163x27 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this novel interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America, Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstances that are themselves the negation of modernity. Through a reading of texts by Sarmiento, Masilla, Quiroga, Vargas Llosa, Garcia Marquez and others, Alonso identifies the existence of this textual dynamics in works ranging from the 19th century to the present.
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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.
Susan Martin-Marquez's book is a wide-ranging revisionary project, ... The detailing is as meticulous and exciting as it is necessary and salutary. ... Key texts of feminist film theory are deftly summarized and their ideas, misconceptions, and mismatches with Spanish contexts illuminatingly placed in the argument, often side by side with the riches of textual archive work.
