Ambivalent desires : representations of modernity and private life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) /

Ambivalent desires : representations of modernity and private life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Andrade, María Mercedes, 1971-
Imprint:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Description:	1 online resource (202 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Colombian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Colombian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) -- Colombia. Privacy in literature. Colombian literature. Modernism (Literature) Privacy in literature. Colombia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304690

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ISBN:	9781611480016 1611480019 9780838758168 (alk. paper) 0838758169 (alk. paper) 9781611480009 1611480000
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Ambivalent Desires is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book discusses the intersection between modernity and the private sphere.
Other form:	Print version: Ambivalent desires Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; c2011. 9780838758168 (alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The modern dream in the work of Jose Asuncion Silva
Fashion and nation in El Grafico
Public private memories in the work of Tomas Rueda Vargas
Caged birds, hothouse flowers: women writers and the interior
The modern interior as nightmare in the work of Ignacio Gomez Davila.