Santiago Colás

Postmodernity in Latin America

The Argentine Paradigm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Colas dares enter the postmodernism debate and ably takes on its leading thinkers. Not only literary critics and theoreticians, but historians, political scientists, and sociologists, too, will have to cite this study as an informed and solidly grounded foray into their respective disciplines."--Jonathan Tittler, Cornell University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780822315209
• ISBN-10: 0822315203
• Artikelnr.: 21440795

Autorenporträt

Santiago Colás is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
1. Resisting Postmodernity 1
I. Latin American Modernity 21
2. Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique 23
3. Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and
the Leap 50
4. Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer arana and the
Argentine National Left 76
5. Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity 100
II. Argentine Postmodernity 119
6. Resucitatating History in Respiracion artificial 121
7. The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron
149
III. Conclusion 159
8. Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities 161
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Index 221