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Cosmopolitanism in the Americas (Comparative Cultural Studies)
Camilla Fojas
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Paperback. Fojas engages the work of Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the travel writings of Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez, and Rodo's Ariel, which share a common principle of the practical application of cosmopolitanism. They sometimes conceptualize models of hospitality and sometimes fail, but keep the broken promise of utopist spaces and their imagined cities. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 331.
Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also implicitly political, it held a promise of justice in the acceptance and coexistence of difference. Being cosmopolitan was an orientation towards the cosmopolis in a search for models of tolerance and openness for different lifestyles, ways of being, and gender and sexual identities. Fojas engages the work of Guatemalan Enrique ... Read more
Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also implicitly political, it held a promise of justice in the acceptance and coexistence of difference. Being cosmopolitan was an orientation towards the cosmopolis in a search for models of tolerance and openness for different lifestyles, ways of being, and gender and sexual identities. Fojas engages the work of Guatemalan Enrique ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557533821
SKU
V9781557533821
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About Camilla Fojas
Camilla Fojas is an Assistant Professor In Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. Her main areas of research are cultural, film, and media studies of the Americas within a comparative postcolonial frame that includes Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippines. She has published work in Comparative Urban and Community Research and Dialogo and ... Read more
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