Cosmopolitan Desires : Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America /

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"Mariano Siskind's groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, locating Latin America in the context of cosmopolitan imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind's formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which Latin American culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siskind, Mariano, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Romance Literatures.
Modernism (Literature)
Latin American literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Litterature latino-americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Amerique latine.
Cosmopolitisme dans la litterature.
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Latin America.
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • World literature as a global relation, or The material production of literary worlds
  • The globalization of the novel and the novelization of the global
  • The global life of genres and the material travels of magical realism
  • Marginal cosmopolitanism, modernismo, and the desire for the world
  • The rise of Latin American world literary discourses (1882-1925)
  • Dario's French universal and the world mappings of modernismo
  • Gomez Carrillo eastbound : travel, Orientalism, and the Jewish question.

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