Ambivalent desires : representations of modernity and private life in Colombia (1890s-1950s)

Ambivalent desires : representations of modernity and private life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) / María Mercedes Andrade.

Ambivalent Desires is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book discusses the intersection between modernity and the private sphere.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrade, María Mercedes, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Colombian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Colombian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Colombia.
Privacy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Colombian literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Colombia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The modern dream in the work of Jose Asuncion Silva
  • Fashion and nation in El Grafico
  • Public private memories in the work of Tomas Rueda Vargas
  • Caged birds, hothouse flowers: women writers and the interior
  • The modern interior as nightmare in the work of Ignacio Gomez Davila.

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