The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America

by Carlos J. Alonso

Book Overview

This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the uncompromising adoption of modernity. This commitment fueled a rhetorical crisis that followed the embracing of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstance that are themselves the negation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118634
• ISBN13: 9780195118636
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"