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

• Autore: Beckman Ericka <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 863/.0093553
• Soggetto topico: Latin American fiction - History and criticism; Economics and literature - Latin America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Capital fictions
• ISBN: 1-4529-4831-3; 0-8166-8188-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462903703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II