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Thresholds of cosmopolitanism: Entering modernity.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thresholds of cosmopolitanism: Entering modernity./
Author:	Fojas, Camilla Marie.
Description:	168 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sylvia Molloy.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9945274
ISBN:	9780599472549

Thresholds of cosmopolitanism: Entering modernity.
Fojas, Camilla Marie.

Thresholds of cosmopolitanism: Entering modernity. - 168 p.

Adviser: Sylvia Molloy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1999.

The OED defines cosmopolitanism as the state of "belonging to all parts of the world; not restricted to one country or its inhabitants; having characteristics which arise from, or are suited to, a range over many different countries; free from national limitations or attachments". In this study, cosmopolitanism is an orientation and a strategy of reading from, on, and upon the threshold, where the threshold, rather than marking the point of entry and departure, is a point of contact and a meeting ground between cultures. I argue that cosmopolitanism does not point to a state of rootless abandon, but rather marks a return to nationalism through the by-ways and contact zones of inter-nationalism.

ISBN: 9780599472549Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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520 $a The OED defines cosmopolitanism as the state of "belonging to all parts of the world; not restricted to one country or its inhabitants; having characteristics which arise from, or are suited to, a range over many different countries; free from national limitations or attachments". In this study, cosmopolitanism is an orientation and a strategy of reading from, on, and upon the threshold, where the threshold, rather than marking the point of entry and departure, is a point of contact and a meeting ground between cultures. I argue that cosmopolitanism does not point to a state of rootless abandon, but rather marks a return to nationalism through the by-ways and contact zones of inter-nationalism.
520 $a In the sequence of texts in this study, the cosmopolitan orientation is offered in various conceits and palatable metonymies from prefaces to letters, to the transformational scene of dialogues and the mini-narrative previews of texts from elsewhere. I look to various texts associated with modernismo by Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Jose Enrique Rodo, Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez to the modernista journal Cosmopolis. This study examines the rhetoric, subtexts, pretexts and orientation of these various cosmopolitan sites to reveal the kind of force and potency gathered in the critical moment at the turn of the last century. These cosmopolitan literary texts work politically to generate a cosmopolitan ethos that disseminated new ways of interpreting the relations of nations to nationalism and of local to global culture. Spanish American cosmopolitanism marks a return to the questions posed by nationalism with a different orientation, sense of commitments and relatedness. I argue that cosmopolitanism offers nothing neat or discrete, but opens a messy uneasiness through its multiple interventions into and suspicion of nationalism; interventions that lead to the reformulation of nationalism with extended boundaries and permeable borders. Finally, I argue that this new national idea, based on an inter-national or pan-national program, creates a sense of correspondence across the Americas. This pan-American correspondence and affiliation carries the sense of the new cosmopolitic, where cosmopolitanism, not merely a conglomeration of cultural markers, is a sign of cultural relatedness.
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