Delirious consumption: the degenerate objects of Mexican modernism. A reading of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera’s Por donde se sube al cielo (1882)

The current essay proposes a reading of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera’s Por donde se sube al cielo (1882), a foundational novel of Spanish American modernismo. Through a close-reading analysis of Nájera’s novel, and considering other modernista texts, the present essay explores how material objects engage...

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Autor: Gandolfi, Laura
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:La Colmena
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.hemeroteca.uaemex.mx:article/21151
Acceso en línea:https://lacolmena.uaemex.mx/article/view/21151
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Sumario:The current essay proposes a reading of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera’s Por donde se sube al cielo (1882), a foundational novel of Spanish American modernismo. Through a close-reading analysis of Nájera’s novel, and considering other modernista texts, the present essay explores how material objects engage and are thematized in the text. In particular, the essay investigates how material objects constitute an extremely revealing fissure that allows for a new way of studying not only the complex relations between literary modernismo and material culture, but also the ways in which Nájera’s novel engages with the problematic constitution of a new feminine subject, a “product” of the new society of consume: the consuming woman.