The everyday Atlantic: time, knowledge, and subjectivity in the twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American newspaper chronicle

325 Pages·2013·4.576 MB·English

by  Gentic, Tania

THE
EVERYDAY
ATLANTIC
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors
The
Everyday
Atlantic
Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity
in the Twentieth-Century Iberian
and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle
T A N I A G E N T I C
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gentic, Tania, 1978–
Th e everyday Atlantic : time, knowledge, and subjectivity in the twentieth-century
Iberian and Latin American newspaper chronicle / Tania Gentic.
pages cm. — (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and
culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4859-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nationalism—Latin
America—History—20th century. 2. Nationalism—Spain—History—20th
century. 3. Group identity—Political aspects—Latin America—History—20th
century. 4. Group identity—Political aspects—Spain—History—20th century.
5. Newspapers—Sections, columns, etc.—Political aspects—History—20th
century. 6. Newspaper reading—Political aspects—History—20th century.
7. Time—Political aspects—History—20th century. 8. Subjectivity—Political
aspects—History—20th century. 9. Spain—Intellectual life—20th century.
10. Latin America—Intellectual life—20th century. I. Title.
F1414.G388 2013
980.03—dc23
2012049544
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my father, in memoriam

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Contents
Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Reading Time, Knowledge, and Power in the Ibero-American 19
Atlantic
2. From Mediterranean to Atlantic: Imperialisme and Ideology 55
in Eugeni d’Ors’s Glosari
3. Reimagining America, Reproducing Europe: Ambivalence and 95
Intersubjectivity in Germán Arciniegas’s “Indigenous” Ethics
4. Knowledge Beyond Borders: Clarice Lispector Chronicles Affect 139
in Dictatorship Brazil
5. The Virtual Subject: Carlos Monsiváis, Media Time, and 177
Mexico’s “Citizens-on-Their-Way-to-Becoming-Citizens”
Conclusion: (Digital) Knowledge and the Everyday Atlantic Subject 217
as Palimpsest, From Chronicle to Blog
Notes 243
Bibliography 273
Index 297
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Illustrations
3.1 Images of the caballitos de Ráquira, from the September 126
1936 Revista de las Indias. (Image courtesy of the Ministerio
de Educación Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá.)
5.1 “Balneario,” from the Sábado de Gloria series by Francisco 176
Mata Rosas. (Photograph courtesy of Francisco Mata Rosas.)
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Acknowledgments
I am deeply indebted to my colleagues at Georgetown University,
who have supported the publication of this book in numerous ways. I
wrote much of this text with the aid of several grants awarded by the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Languages
and Linguistics, for which I am grateful. I was also fortunate enough
to present an early version of chapter 4 to the America’s Initiative run
by John Tutino, where I received many helpful suggestions. I must also
thank my chairs, Alfonso Morales and Gwen Kirkpatrick, as well as the
many colleagues in the Spanish and Portuguese Department who have
made working at Georgetown such a pleasure. Various research assistants
throughout the years have also assisted me in a number of ways: thank
you to Óscar Amaya Ortega, Ángela Donate Velasco, Denise Kripper,
María José Navia, Jovana Žujević, and most especially Marina Young,
for your hard work on this project and others. I am also grateful for the
services off ered by the Offi ce of Scholarly Publications, run by Carole
Sargent.
Many wonderful readers, at Georgetown and elsewhere, have engaged
with this work at various stages and provided indispensable suggestions
for improvements. I have had fruitful discussions with others regarding
the publishing process. My thanks for these dialogues go to Elisabeth
Austin, Helen Blouet, Sara Castro-Klarén, Emily Francomano, Barbara
Fuchs, Leslie Hinkson, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Francisco LaRubia-Prado,
Adam Lifshey, Reinaldo Laddaga, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,
Alejandro Mejías-López, Erica Miller-Yozell, Barbara Mujica, Sara
Nadal-Melsió, Joanne Rappaport, Eunice Rodríguez-Ferguson, Verónica
Salles-Reese, Vivaldo Santos, Angelina Stelmach, Lisa Surwillo, Scott
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