The Burden of Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America 1
4. The Corpus Delicti 11
5. Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile 21
6. The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis 34
7. Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism 49
8. The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega 66
9. The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections 81
10. The Burden of Modernity 94
11. Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonomista Tradition 104
12. Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of Simon Rodriguez 119
13. Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's Fin de Siglo 134
14. Italian Opera in Early National Mexico 144
15. The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) 154
16. Reading Loose Women Reading 165
17. "Damnable Iteration": The Traps of Political Spectacle 180
18. Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project 199
19. Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines 214
20. Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance 236
21. The Repose of Heroes 249
22. His America, Our America: Jose Marti Reads Whitman 262
23. Broken English Memories 274
24. Contributors 289
25. Index 293