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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812265303321

Autore

Beckman Ericka <1951->

Titolo

Capital fictions [[electronic resource] ] : the literature of Latin America's export age / / Ericka Beckman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4529-4831-3

0-8166-8188-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

863/.0093553

Soggetti

Latin American fiction - History and criticism

Economics and literature - Latin America

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

Production: Imagining the export republic -- Consumption: Modernismo's import catalogues -- Money I: Financial crisis and the stock market novel -- Money II: Bankruptcy and decadence -- Exploitation: A journey to the export real.

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas, capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major