Civilisation and Authenticity
The question What is Latin America? has been at the heart of writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this belies is the…
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The question What is Latin America? has been at the heart of writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this belies is the inherent question What is Latin America compared to Europe? This book lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin Americanist discourse through some of the continent's most influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jos Mart, Jos Enrique Rod, Jos Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Roberto Fernndez Retamar, Nstor Garca Canclini, and Walter Mignolo.Civilisation and Authenticity presents case studies of two of Latin America's most renowned and representative twentieth-century writers, the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentine Julio Cortzar and reveals how desire to define Latin America is entwined throughout their groundbreaking experimental novels, focusing on