Pueblos Enfermos: The Discourse of Illness in the Turn-of-the-Century Spanish and Latin American Essay (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807892661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He shows how concepts of sexual degeneration, racial inferiority, immaturity, and gender prominent in contemporary philosophy and science were central to these writers' shared understanding of the nation as an organism vulnerable to "social pathogens.". Michael Aronna traces the reactions of these historically and rhetorically related colonial and postcolonial thinkers to the new economic, cultural, social, and political challenges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol (1897), Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel (1900), and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo (1909)