Bello and Bolívar
Poetry and Politics in the Spanish American Revolution
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
- Author: Antonio Cussen
- Date Published: May 2009
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- isbn: 9780521111393
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As Andrés Bello predicted in 1823, the glory of Simón Bolívar has continued to grow since the Spanish American Revolution. The Revolution is still viewed as an almost mythical quest, and the name of the Libertador has become synonymous with the region's hopes for integration. In this 1992 book, the official history of the Revolution - the heroic history of Bolívar - is replaced by the account of Bello, who was first Bolívar's teacher and later his critic. Through a detailed study of the manuscripts of Bello's unfinished poem América, Antonio Cussen reconstructs Bello's version of the Revolution and seeks to understand its political and cultural consequences. The author argues that Bello recorded the disintegration of the Augustan model of power and intimated the inevitable approach of liberalism with a certain longing for the classical culture of his youth.
Read more- An important contribution to debates about cultural ideology in the time of revolution
- A unique insight into the relationship between a statesman and a poet
- A new analysis of the most influential poetic account of Latin America at the time of revolution
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- Date Published: May 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521111393
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Caracas (1781–1810):
1. Augustan Caracas
2. Revolt
Part II. London (1810–29)
3. Independence
4. The reconquest
5. The decided revolution
6. The new Augustus
7. The campaign of the monarchists
8. Poetry visits America
9. 'Agricultura'
10. Bolívar poetics
Part III. Santiago: (1829–65):
11. The liberal poets
12. The exile
Appendix
Notes
Bibliographical note
Index.
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