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- Title
Women of Paris, World Literature, and a Counter-Mythology of the Metropolis in Manuel Ugarte's Early Literary Work.
- Authors
MOODY, SARAH
- Abstract
This article examines the critique of the Latin American exile in Paris in the underexamined early literary work of Manuel Ugarte (1875-1951). Ugarte's critique is contextualized here within the tradition of the French capital as a locus of production for the tradition of 'world literature' and as a point of convergence for the desiring subjects of modernity. Ugarte's writing highlights the role of women and of aesthetic femininity to critique the social and aesthetic ambition, egotism, and disjunctive social experience of marginal subjects exiled in the metropolis. For theoretical support the article draws on the concepts of nomadism (Noyes) and empire (Hardt and Negri), on discussions of the Hispanic-American modernista tradition in Paris (Colombi, Pera, and Siskind), and on critical responses to Casanova's The World Republic of Letters.
- Subjects
UGARTE, Manuel, 1878-1951; PAISAJES parisienses (Book); CRONICAS del bulevar (Book); LA novela de las horas y de los dias (Book); PARIS (France) in literature; WOMEN in literature; HISTORIOGRAPHY of criticism; 20TH century French literature; FRENCH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2016, Vol 93, Issue 9, p995
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2016.62