The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Literature, language, and political power in nineteenth-century Colombia
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Literature, language, and political power in nineteenth-century Colombia
Kenneth A. Loparo examines the political work performed by poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation in nineteenth-century Colombia. The book centers on how a circle of right-wing intellectuals used these cultural practices to legitimize its rise to power, then considers the relationship between that ascent and the dismantling of a liberal-democratic state while basic constitutional freedoms remained formally intact. It places literary activity alongside questions of ideology, state formation, and the authority of learned culture.
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- Readers studying Colombian or Latin American literary history
- Students of translation, philology, and political ideology
- Scholars interested in literature’s relationship to state power
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