The Lettered City
The Lettered City
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文字之城
DOI：
10.1057/9781137336255.0006
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
J. Chasteen
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Á. Rama;J. Chasteen
《字母之城》死后出版广受好评，是拉丁美洲最受尊敬的理论家之一的一部极其重要的著作。安吉尔·拉玛的开创性研究--这里展示了它的第一个英译本--概述了书面话语在拉丁美洲社会历史形成中的力量，并强调了城市在部署和复制这种力量方面的核心作用。为了给一个庞大的新大陆帝国建立秩序，伊比利亚君主们精心规划了城市，在这些城市中，制度和法律权力通过一支名为letrados的精英精英队伍来管理；拉玛将字母文化和国家权力的城市联系在一起，称之为“字母城市”。从殖民时期开始，罗摩对文字的霸权影响进行了历史分析。他在伊比利亚殖民者的帝国设计中探索了写作和城市化的位置，并将这座城市视为代表启蒙运动进步的合理标志秩序，以及根据详细的书面指示，旧世界在新世界中被改造的地方。他的分析继续叙述了莱特拉多人面临的社会和政治挑战，因为他们在社会中的角色扩大到包括记者、小说作家、散文家和政治领袖，以及这些角色如何在19世纪的独立运动中发生变化。20世纪的到来，尤其是大众阅读群体的逐渐兴起，给读者带来了更多的挑战。通过对世纪之交文学生活中的潮流和逆流的讨论，拉玛展示了这座文学之城最终是如何被“革命”的。在设定关于知识分子、国家构成和国家之间复杂关系的辩论术语方面，这本优雅的写作和翻译的著作将被广泛学科的拉丁美洲学者以及人类学、文化地理学和后殖民研究领域的学生和学者阅读。
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 specialised cadre of elite men called letrados; it is the urban nexus of lettered culture and state power that Rama calls "the lettered city." Starting with the colonial period, Rama undertakes a historical analysis of the hegemonic influences of the written word. He explores the place of writing and urbanisation in the imperial designs of the Iberian colonialists and views the city both as a rational order of signs representative of Enlightenment progress and as the site where the Old World is transformed - according to detailed written instructions - in the New. His analysis continues by recounting the social and political challenges faced by the letrados as their roles in society widened to include those of journalist, fiction writer, essayist, and political leader, and how those roles changed through the independence movements of the nineteenth century. The coming of the twentieth century, and especially the gradual emergence of a mass reading public, brought further challenges. Through a discussion of the currents and counter currents in turn-of-the-century literary life, Rama shows how the city of letters was finally "revolutionised." Already crucial in setting the terms for debate concerning the complex relationships among intellectuals, national formations, and the state, this elegantly written and translated work will be read by Latin American scholars in a wide range of disciplines, and by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, cultural geography, and postcolonial studies.