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Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures) by Elisabeth Guerrero is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Two motifs of an angel of history, one European and one Mexican, provide a theoretical framework for this book. The first is Walter Benjamin's interpretation of the Klee painting angelus novus, a figure that gazes upon the ruins of the past, powerless to repair the broken pieces as it keels into the future. Although Benjamin envisions history as catastrophe piled upon catastrophe, he also sees in this angel the possibility for redemption in divine destruction. Mexico City's key monument, the Ang
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elisabeth Guerrero
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230606371
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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