Introduction -- The modern dream in the work of Jose Asuncion Silva -- Fashion and nation in El Grafico -- Public private memories in the work of Tomas Rueda Vargas -- Caged birds, hothouse flowers: women writers and the interior -- The modern interior as nightmare in the work of Ignacio Gomez Davila
Summary
Ambivalent Desires is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book discusses the intersection between modernity and the private sphere
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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