Como antigas estátuas de bronze
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Alexander von Humboldt, Hispanoamerica, Classicism, RhetoricAbstract
"Antiquifying" America is a central rhetorical strategy in Alexander von Humboldt's Relation historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent (1814-1831). Over the course of the colonial experience, tension infuses the discourse and problems in the use of classicist motifs as imperial models of appropriation become apparent: metaphoric and metonymic references collide; positive and negative connotations overlap; incompatible modes of temporalization contrast with one another; colonial and dissident identifications coincide. The concept of "antiquity" is de-authorized, deconstructed. Readers witness the dissolution of European classicism as a politico-aesthetic 'dispositif' due to the experience of cultural difference.Downloads
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2010-01-01
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Lubrich, O. (2010). Como antigas estátuas de bronze . Estudos Avançados, 24(70), 207-226. https://revistas.usp.br/eav/article/view/10501