Capital Fictions

The Literature of Latin America's Export Age

Bibliographic Data

ID19965231
AuthorsEricka Beckman (Portuguese Army, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages254
Publication date2012-11-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCapital fictions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9780816679195.001.0001
OpenAlexW1483401791
Open LibraryOL25307579M
ISBN9780816679195
LanguageEN
Citations received26

Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. Capital Fictions investigates literature's key role in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major wave of capitalist modernization. Using an innovative blend of literary and economic analysis and drawing from a rich interdisciplinary archive, Ericka Beckman provides the first extended evaluation of Export Age literary production. She traces the emergence of a distinct set of fictions, fantasies, and illusions that accompanied the rise of export-led, dependent capitalism. These "capital fictions" range from promotional pamphlets to Guatemalan coffee and advertisements for French fashions to novels about the stock market collapse in Argentina and rubber extraction in the Amazon. Questioning the opposition between culture and economics in Latin America and elsewhere, Capital Fictions shows that literature operated as a powerful form of political economy during this period. -- Back cover

Ancient history · Art · Economic history · Economics · Latin Americans · Political science · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Economics and literature · History and criticism · Latin America · Latin American fiction · Latin american fiction, history and criticism

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