Description |
1 online resource (xi, 150 pages) |
Series |
Comparative cultural studies |
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Comparative cultural studies.
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Contents |
Cosmopolitanism in the Americas : becoming worldly, becoming modern -- Thresholds of cosmopolitanism : prefaces to modernity and other-worldly readings -- Cosmopolitan topographies of Paris : citing Balzac -- Cosmopolitan decadence : writing inversions -- American cosmopolis : the world's Columbian Exposition and Chicago across the Americas -- Literary cosmotopias : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Ariel and Cosmopolis -- Conclusions |
Summary |
"Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also implicitly political, it held a promise of justice in the acceptance and coexistence of difference. Being cosmopolitan was an orientation towards the cosmopolis in a search for models of tolerance and openness for different lifestyles, ways of being, and gender and sexual identities. Fojas engages the work of Guatemalan Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the travel writings from the Chicago World's Fair of Cuban Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez, the Venezuelan journal Cosmopoils, and Rodo's infamous Ariel, all of which share a common principle of the practical application of cosmopolitanism. These figures grapple with cosmopolitanism, sometimes conceptualizing new models of hospitality and sometimes failing, nonetheless keeping the broken promise of utopist spaces and their imagined cities."--Google Book viewed Mar. 11, 2021 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Subject |
Cosmopolitanism -- America -- History -- 19th century
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Literary movements -- America -- History -- 19th century
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Latin American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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City and town life in literature.
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Pan-Americanism -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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American literature
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City and town life in literature
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Civilization
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Civilization -- European influences
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Cosmopolitanism
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Intellectual life
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Latin American literature
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Literary movements
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Pan-Americanism
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Politics and government
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Spaans.
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Letterkunde.
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Culturele invloeden.
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Wereldburgerschap.
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SUBJECT |
America -- Civilization -- 19th century
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America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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Latin America -- Civilization -- European influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074884
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America -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Subject |
America
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Latin America
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004028058 |
ISBN |
1423732367 |
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9781423732365 |
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1612490220 |
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9781612490229 |
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