Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction: Tradition and Modernity, Literature and Cultural Studies......Page 10
Introduction......Page 18
Modernity as Material Reality and as a Philosophico-Aesthetic Concept......Page 20
Latin American modernidad......Page 28
Hybrid Cultures and One Postmodern Critique of Modernity......Page 32
A Note on Names: Postmodernism, Postmodernity, or Late Capitalism......Page 34
Modernity under Erasure, or, the Limits of Postmodern Relativism......Page 36
2 Culture Is (Not) Ordinary: The Secrets of the Slow in the Public Sphere......Page 44
La ideología de lo culto moderno......Page 46
Note on the Word Culture......Page 50
A Paradigmatic History of Latin American Cultural Studies......Page 51
Modernism and Hegemony......Page 55
Globalization and the Fast and Slow Economies of Art......Page 59
3 Fieldwork: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Tradition......Page 66
To Create Is to Resist......Page 67
The Immanence of Cultural Studies and Hermeneutics......Page 69
The Question of Context......Page 72
The Politics of the Question of Context, or, Avant-Garde Subalternism and the Problem of Tradition......Page 75
Articulation versus Homology......Page 80
History and Modernity......Page 84
Autonomy Domine......Page 87
El cuchillo divisor......Page 91
LEMA: Arte y progreso......Page 93
History and the Proper Name......Page 96
Rituals......Page 97
5 Vallejo, Semicolonialism, and Poetemporality......Page 102
Postcolonial Theory on Semicolonial Times......Page 103
The Ghost of Lenin......Page 108
Symbolist Imperial Nostalgias......Page 110
The (Peruvian) Western Discourse of Modernity......Page 113
Poetemporality......Page 116
Two Alternatives for Trilce VI......Page 118
The Peruvian (Western) Discourse of Modernity......Page 123
6 Borges and a Differently Colored History......Page 126
The History of Eternity......Page 128
The Question of Modernity (and Tradition)......Page 130
A Personal (Platonic) Theory of Eternity......Page 135
The Eternal Return: \'44, \'46, \'43, \'44, \'46 . . .......Page 139
The Context of Nationalism......Page 143
Otra historia......Page 148
Transculturation......Page 152
Pedro Páramo and the Mexican Roman Trinity......Page 155
\"Luvina\" and the Time of Tradition......Page 164
The Origins of Technique......Page 168
Demo(cra)tic Design......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 174
8 This Is Not a Revolution: Carpentier on the Age of Enlightenment......Page 176
Of Ripe Immaturity: Enlightenment and Popular Culture......Page 178
The Two Functions of Religion: Birthright and Grand Narrative......Page 180
The Grand Narrative of Nature......Page 184
Narrative Art and Magic......Page 192
Conclusion......Page 196
Notes......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 238
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