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9780822319818

Divergent Modernities

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822319818

  • ISBN10:

    0822319810

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-06-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"With an innovative approach to the foundational intellectuals of Latin American modernity, Julio Ramos contributes to a rethinking of the intersections that constitute "Latinoamericanismo" of the twentieth century."--Nestor G. Canclini, author of "Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity"

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface
Foreword
Prologue
The Other's Knowledge: Writing and Orality in Sarmiento's Facundo
Knowledge-(as)-Said: Language and Politics in Andrés Bello
Fragmentation of the Republic of Letters
Limits of Autonomy: Journalism and Literature
Decorating the City: The Chronicle and Urban Experience
Introduction: Martí and His Journey to the United States
Machinations: Literature and Technology
"This Cardboard Tabloid Life": Literature and the Masses
Culturalism and Latinoamericanismo
"Nuestra América": The Art of Good Governance
The Repose of Heroes: On Poetry and War in José Martí
Migratories
Appendixes
Translations of Three Texts
Index
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