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Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globilization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Miguel Lopez Lozano
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Paperback. Traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the literary genre of dystopian science fiction to elaborate on how globalization has resulted in the alienation of indigenous peoples and the deterioration of the ecology. This book concludes that Mexican and Chicano perspectives on the past and the ... Read more
Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the literary genre of dystopian science fiction to elaborate on how globalization has resulted in the alienation of indigenous peoples and the deterioration of the ecology. This book concludes that Mexican and Chicano perspectives on the past and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557534842
SKU
V9781557534842
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About Miguel Lopez Lozano
Miguel Lopez is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico where he teaches Latin American narrative and Border Studies. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation on Mexican women indigenous writers. His current research focuses ... Read more
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