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On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation
building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or
realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique
of traditional ideas often portrayed in Decadentism and modernismo.
The study focuses on the "non-canonical" works of
turn-of-the-century authors-including Jose Maria Vargas Vila,
Horacio Quiroga, Clemente Palma, and Jose Marti-and concludes with
a study that compares the literary portrayal of doomed societies in
the nineteenth century with the work of contemporary authors, such
as Fernando Vallejo. Gonzalez Espitia establishes a critique of the
concept of nation building in the romantic narratives of South
America. These narratives are generally characterized by underlying
erotic discourses meant to set the recently liberated countries of
Latin America on a path toward class harmony, racial integration,
socially beneficial marriage, and demographic expansion. An
analysis of nation-building narratives understood as erotic
discourses must also consider novels that manifest a dynamics of
self-destruction. The authors included in this book subvert the
idea of "nation" as a clear, positive, and fruitful space, bringing
a dose of reality to this elusive concept. These authors design
alternative futures for Latin America, futures that were seen as
fruitless, obscure, contemptible, or doomed.
Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas'
colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the
period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards'
political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal
frances" or "el mal de las Indias." Sifilografia offers a cultural
history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the
transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth
century. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia charts interrelated literary,
artistic, medical, and governmental discourses, exploring how fears
of the disease and the search for its cure mobilized a transoceanic
dialogue that forms an underside of Enlightenment narratives of
progress.Through a narrative revealing the transformation and
retooling of ideas related to syphilis as a bodily contagion,
Gonzalez Espitia demonstrates the Spanish-speaking world's crucial
relevance to a global understanding of the period in the context of
current reassessments of Enlightenment thought. Broad in its scope,
the book incorporates an extensive corpus of medical treatises,
literary essays, poems, novels, art, and governmental documents.
The rich overlapping matrix of authors and texts broached subvert
the idea of a homogeneous interpretation of syphilis and
contributes to the rediscovery of the wide-ranging historical,
cultural, and philosophical impact of this disease in the
Spanish-speaking world. Sifilografia seeks to open a productive
dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of
science and Enlightenment.
Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas'
colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the
period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards'
political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal
frances" or "el mal de las Indias." Sifilografia offers a cultural
history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the
transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth
century. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia charts interrelated literary,
artistic, medical, and governmental discourses, exploring how fears
of the disease and the search for its cure mobilized a transoceanic
dialogue that forms an underside of Enlightenment narratives of
progress.Through a narrative revealing the transformation and
retooling of ideas related to syphilis as a bodily contagion,
Gonzalez Espitia demonstrates the Spanish-speaking world's crucial
relevance to a global understanding of the period in the context of
current reassessments of Enlightenment thought. Broad in its scope,
the book incorporates an extensive corpus of medical treatises,
literary essays, poems, novels, art, and governmental documents.
The rich overlapping matrix of authors and texts broached subvert
the idea of a homogeneous interpretation of syphilis and
contributes to the rediscovery of the wide-ranging historical,
cultural, and philosophical impact of this disease in the
Spanish-speaking world. Sifilografia seeks to open a Productive
dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of
science and Enlightenment.
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