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The burden of modernity

by Carlos J. Alonso

Spanish American prose literatureHistory and criticismIntellectual lifeNarration (Rhetoric)Spanish american literature, history and criticismLatin america, intellectual life

An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity.

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Book data: Open Library