The Classics in South America

Five Case Studies

Dr Germán Campos Muñoz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19504-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Germán Campos Muñoz is Associate Professor of World Literature at Appalachian State University, USA.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Plus Ultra
Prospective Classicisms in Latin America
The Class of the Classics
Greek and Latin America? A Description of this Project
Note on the Translations

Chapter 1: Avatars
Preliminaries
Acosta, the Elder
The Antarctic Ovid
The Austral Muse
Conclusions: Culling, Cultivation, and Culture

Chapter 2: Chorographers
Preliminaries
The Borders of the New World: Pedro Nolasco Mere’s Maps of the Walls of Lima
The Language of the New World: Rodrígo de Valdés’s Fundación y Grandeza
Conclusions

Chapter 3: Personae
Preliminaries
Hypermetric History: José Joaquín de Olmedo’s Victoria de Junín
An Ides of March in September: The 1828 Conspiracy Against Bolívar
Conclusions: History, Impersonation, Prosopopoeia

Chapter 4: Mythographers
Preliminaries
The Other Asterion
The Creation of a Carioca Orpheus
Orpheus in Color
Confirmations, Rebuttals, and Antitheses
Conclusions

Chapter 5 (Coda): Pedagogues
Preliminaries
Monuments to the Origin
Back to Eryce

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Zusatzinfo	4 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-19504-9 / 1350195049
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19504-2 / 9781350195042
Zustand	Neuware