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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785728803321

Autore

Austin Elisabeth L

Titolo

Exemplary ambivalence in late nineteenth-century Spanish America [[electronic resource] ] : narrating Creole subjectivity / / Elisabeth L. Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg [Pa.], : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, MD, : Roman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012

ISBN

1-283-61822-2

9786613930675

1-61148-465-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Disciplina

860.9/9809034

Soggetti

Latin American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Creoles in literature

Latin America Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In English with excerpts in Spanish.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Postcolonial Subjects to Ambivalent Exemplars; 2 Creole Paternalism and Ambivalent National Subjectivity in Eugenio Cambaceres; 3 Exemplary Modernism; 4 Monstrous Progeny; 5 Ideological Psychosis and Impotent Compassion in Clorinda Matto de Turner; 6 Modeling Multiplicity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Exemplary Ambivalence fills a critical gap within studies of 19th-century Spanish America as it explores the inconsistencies of exemplary texts and emphasizes the forms, sources, and implications of creole ideological and narrative multiplicity. This interdisciplinary study examines creole writing subjectivities and ethnic fictions within the construction of national, aesthetic, and gendered cultural identities, highlighting the dynamic relationship between exemplary discourse and readers as active