The Lettered City (Latin America in Translation)

by Angel Rama

John Charles Chasteen (Translator)

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Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America's most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama's groundbreaking study-presented here in its first English translation-provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. To impose order on a vast New World empire, the Iberian monarchs created carefully planned cities where institutional and legal powers were administered through a specialized cadre of elite men called letrados; it is the urban nexus of...Read more
  • ISBN10 0822317575
  • ISBN13 9780822317579
  • Publish Date 25 September 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Duke University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English