The Burden of Modernity(English, Hardcover, Alonso Carlos J.)

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The Burden of Modernity(English, Hardcover, Alonso Carlos J.) is written by Alonso Carlos J. and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195118634 (ISBN 10) and 9780195118636 (ISBN 13).

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 of modernity. Through fresh readings of texts by Sarmiento, Mansilla, Quiroga, Vargos Llosa, Garcia Marquez, and others, Alonso tracks this textual dynamic in works from the nineteenth century to the present.