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Author Colás, Santiago, 1965- author.

Title Postmodernity in Latin America : the Argentine paradigm / Santiago Colás
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Post-contemporary interventions.
Contents Resisting postmodernity -- 1. Latin American modernity: Beyond Western modernity?: Rayuela as critique -- Toward a Latin American modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the leap -- Latin American modernity in crisis: El beso de la mujer araña and the Argentine National Left -- Beyond Valentin's dream: from the crisis of Latin American modernity -- 2. Argentine postmodernity: Resuscitating history in Respiración artificial -- The importance of writing history; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Perón -- 3. Conclusion: Speculations toward articulating Latin American postmodernities -- Postmodernities
Summary Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been bot
Analysis Spanish fiction
Argentina
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index
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Subject Cortázar, Julio. Rayuela.
Puig, Manuel. Beso de la mujer araña.
Piglia, Ricardo. Respiración artificial.
SUBJECT Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne gnd
Andrae, A. gnd
Beso de la mujer araña (Puig, Manuel) fast
Rayuela (Cortázar, Julio) fast
Respiración artificial (Piglia, Ricardo) fast
Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and society -- Argentina
Literature and society -- Latin America
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Postmodernismo (Literatura) -- Argentina
Argentine fiction
Literature and society
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmoderne
Postmodernisme.
Spaans.
Letterkunde.
Argentina
Latin America
Argentinien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94011348
ISBN 9780822382669
0822382660
1283062860
9781283062862
9786613062864
6613062863
0822315084
9780822315087