Alonso, Carlos J. The burden of modernity: the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Oxford University Press US, 1998. Print. PREFACE v. He is going to discuss certain “aporias” or contradictions of the discourses of modernity, which become institutionalized and lead to a continuous search for identity. The discourse of modernity serves (1) due to an intense desire to be modern; and (2) to expand the ways to deviate from modernity. vi. His definition of modernity as an historical notion vii Then modernity as transhistorical viii. then the way this book Works 1) MODERNITYASIDEALANDCURSE 5–6 Rhetorical as both linguistic and historical. 6 Greenblatt and marvelousness 7 the com ple menta ry natu re of the “NEW Worl d” ]ohannes Fabian has termed "the denial of coevalness": the use of strategi.es to posit the other as a distant object of cognition 8 counternarrative and futurity
