Research Catalog

Title

Cosmopolitan desires : global modernity and world literature in Latin America / Mariano Siskind.

Author

Siskind, Mariano, 1972-

Publication

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

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Description

xi, 357 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Mariano Siskind's groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, locating Latin America in the context of cosmopolitan imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind's formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which Latin American culture has negotiated its aspirations to participate in global networks of cultural exchange, and an original tool to reorganize literary history. Reading across novels, poems, essays, travel narratives, and historical documents, Siskind shows how Latin American literary modernity was produced as a global relation, from the rise of planetary novels in the 1870s, to cosmopolitan modernism at the turn of the twentieth century, to the global spread of magical realism. With its unusual breadth of reference and a firm but unobtrusive grounding in philosophy, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, Cosmopolitan Desires will have a major impact in the fields of Latin American studies and comparative literature."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

FlashPoints ; 14

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) 14.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• 1900-talet
• Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > Latin America
• Cosmopolitanism in literature
• Littérature latino-américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Modernisme (Littérature) > Amérique latine
• Cosmopolitisme dans la littérature
• Cosmopolitanism in literature
• Latin American literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• Weltbürgertum Motiv
• Literatur
• Latinamerikansk litteratur > historia
• Modernism (litteratur)
• Kosmopolitism i litteraturen
• Latin America
• Lateinamerika
• Hispanoamerika

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

World literature as a global relation, or The material production of literary worlds -- The globalization of the novel and the novelization of the global -- The global life of genres and the material travels of magical realism -- Marginal cosmopolitanism, modernismo, and the desire for the world -- The rise of Latin American world literary discourses (1882-1925) -- Dario's French universal and the world mappings of modernismo -- Gomez Carrillo eastbound : travel, Orientalism, and the Jewish question.

ISBN

• 9780810129900
• 0810129906

LCCN

2014001057

OCLC

• 868300670
• SCSB-10773283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library