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The Classics in South America - Five Case Studies (Hardcover)
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The Classics in South America - Five Case Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
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This volume examines the long and complex history of the
Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics
have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the
self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this
history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen
from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and
the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection
of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as
maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political
speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes
across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book
reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods,
fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the
formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western -
a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and
political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their
own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics
in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of
well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while
providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies
of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.
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