| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-249) and index. |
| Summary |
In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Maarten van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting forth that vision. This paradox hinges on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politically engaged and responsible intellectual. |
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Drawing from his fiction, literary essays, and political Journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. He concludes that Fuentes is fundamentally a modernist writer, in spite of the fact that he occasionally gravitates toward the postmodernist position in literature and politics. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Carlos Fuentes in the 1950s -- Myth, contingency, and revolution -- Between identity and alternativity -- Making it new -- Utopia and the state -- The nation as unimaginable community -- The real nation and the legal nation -- Conclusion : Carlos Fuentes in the 1990s. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Fuentes, Carlos -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fuentes, Carlos. (OCoLC)fst00050724
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Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012. (DE-588)118703420
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Mexico -- In literature.
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Mexico -- En la literatura.
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
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Kulturelle Identität (Motiv) (DE-588)4253906-7
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Roman. (DE-588)4050479-7
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Delden, Maarten, 1958- Carlos Fuentes, Mexico and modernity. 1st ed. [Nashville, Tenn.] : Vanderbilt University Press, ©1998 082651295X (DLC) 97033812 (OCoLC)37567214 |
| ISBN |
0585253498 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585253497 (electronic bk.) |
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