Presents an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. This title explores the place of writing and urbanisation in the imperial designs of the Iberian colonialists.
Presents an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cit...
Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. "Writing across Cultures" is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development.
In "Writing across Cultures," Rama extends the Cuban...
Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. "Writing across Cultures" is his comprehensive analysis of ...
Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. "Writing across Cultures" is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development.
In "Writing across Cultures," Rama extends the Cuban...
Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. "Writing across Cultures" is his comprehensive analysis of ...
Posthumously published to wide acclaim, "The Lettered City "is a vitally important work by one of Latin America s most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama s groundbreaking study presented here in its first English translation provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. To impose order on a vast New World empire, the Iberian monarchs created carefully planned cities where institutional and legal powers were administered through a specialized...
Posthumously published to wide acclaim, "The Lettered City "is a vitally important work by one of Latin America s most highly respected theorists. Ang...
