Capital Fictions : The Literature of Latin America's Export Age /

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Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beckman, Ericka, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Latin American fiction.
Economics and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Économie politique et litterature > Amerique latine.
Roman latino-americain > Histoire et critique.
Economics and literature > Latin America.
Latin American fiction > History and criticism.
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas, capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780816681884

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