Chapter · October 29, 2024
This chapter proposes that a corpus of Latin American novels published during the nineteenth century which focus on issues of finance, external debt, and gold parity, also articulated the limits of both collective and individual sovereignty. In these novel ...
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Journal ArticleEstudios: Revista de investigaciones literarias y culturales · 2007
The article upholds that El negocio (1920), the third novel by Puerto Rican naturalist author Manuel Zeno Gandía, was less well-received by critics and readers than his earlier work, La charca (1894), in part because of its focus on the Island’s commercial ...
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Chapter · 2006
Venezuelan poet and intellectual Andrés Bello wrote what are considered the two foundaional poems of Spanish America’s republican period. In this reading, the author argues that the interpetation of these poems should consider the material circumstances in ...
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Journal ArticleEstudios: Revista de investigaciones literarias y culturales · 2003
This article examines the use of financial metaphors in the texts and general conceptualization of Ángel Rama. It proposes that this Uruguayan critic builds his theory of the lettered city —and his particular vision of the 19th century Latin American Liter ...
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