Money

doi:10.1017/9781108976367.017

Chapter 16 - Money

from Part IV - Connectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2023

Alejandra Laera

Edited by

Fernando Degiovanni and

Javier Uriarte

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Fernando Degiovanni: Affiliation:
City University of New York
Javier Uriarte: Affiliation:
Stony Brook University, State University of New York

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This chapter proposes to trace a map following the economic and literary route of money in Latin America between 1890 and 1930, in tune with what was happening in Western Europe and the United States. Money, with all its ubiquity between real and virtual financial capital, had an expansive and global power that altered local imagination: In Latin America, due to both literary and economic forces, we see the proliferation of what this chapter dubs “fictions of money.” Furthermore, it focuses on the Argentine, Brazilian, and Guatemalan cases, given the striking publication of financial novels immediately after the economic crises provoked by fluctuations in the stock market and unbridled speculation, which served to process the actual circulation of money and to negotiate the social experience related to it.

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money financial crisis Argentine literature Brazilian literature Julián Martel Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay Martínez Sobral

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930 , pp. 239 - 251

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.017 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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