Title Cosmopolitanism in the Americas / Camilla Fojas

Published West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 150 pages) Series Comparative cultural studies Comparative cultural studies. 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 English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cosmopolitanism -- America -- History -- 19th century Literary movements -- America -- History -- 19th century American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Latin American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism City and town life in literature. Pan-Americanism -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. American literature City and town life in literature Civilization Civilization -- European influences Cosmopolitanism Intellectual life Latin American literature Literary movements Pan-Americanism Politics and government Spaans. Letterkunde. Culturele invloeden. Wereldburgerschap. SUBJECT America -- Civilization -- 19th century America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Latin America -- Civilization -- European influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074884 America -- Politics and government -- 19th century Subject America Latin America Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2004028058 ISBN 1423732367 9781423732365 1612490220 9781612490229

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