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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790723803321

Autore

Moore Melisa <1969->

Titolo

José Carlos Mariátegui's unfinished revolution : politics, poetics, and change in 1920s Peru / / Melisa Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-463-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

985.06/3

Soggetti

Peruvian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Peru Politics and government 1919-1968

Peru Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Landscapes of Contradiction; 2 Brave New World; 3 Tradition on Trial; 4 Fugitive Signs; 5 A New Conception; 6 A Female Vanguard in Peru; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph on José Carlos Mariátegui, the seminal Latin American Marxist theorist, provides original readings of key writings through the lens of his understudied poetics, illuminating their full political meaning and impact. It offers insightful critiques of overlooked intellectuals, especially female, whom he championed. These readings are fully contextualized through comprehensive study of complex sociopolitical conditions and backgrounds, providing new thinking on Mariátegui, his contemporaries and Peruvian modernity that will benefit academ