Divergent Modernities

Divergent Modernities
Author :
Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 377
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780822381099
ISBN-13 : 0822381095
Rating : 4/5 (095 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Divergent Modernities by : Julio Ramos

Download or read book Divergent Modernities written by Julio Ramos and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by José David Saldívar Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available for the first time in English—and now published with new material—Ramos’s study not only offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history, literature, and nation-building in the modern Latin American context but also takes crucial steps toward the development of a truly comparative inter-American cultural criticism. With his focus on the nineteenth century, Ramos begins his genealogy of an emerging Latin Americanism with an examination of Argentinean Domingo Sarmiento and Chilean Andrés Bello, representing the “enlightened letrados” of tradition. In contrast to these “lettered men,” he turns to Cuban journalist, revolutionary, and poet José Martí, who, Ramos suggests, inaugurated a new kind of intellectual subject for the Americas. Though tracing Latin American modernity in general, it is the analysis of Martí—particularly his work in the United States—that becomes the focal point of Ramos’s study. Martí’s confrontation with the unequal modernization of the New World, the dependent status of Latin America, and the contrast between Latin America’s culture of elites and the northern mass culture of commodification are, for Ramos, key elements in understanding the complex Latin American experience of modernity. Including two new chapters written for this edition, as well as translations of three of Martí’s most important works, Divergent Modernities will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand development and modernity across the Americas.


Divergent Modernities Related Books

Divergent Modernities
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Julio Ramos
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-22 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a Foreword by José David Saldívar Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America
Planetary Modernisms
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Susan Stanford Friedman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-18 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford
The Off-Modern
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Svetlana Boym
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architec
The Svetlana Boym Reader
Language: en
Pages: 557
Authors: Svetlana Boym
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigran
The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Yogita Goyal
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of