Exemplary ambivalence in late nineteenth-century Spanish America : narrating Creole subjectivity / Elisabeth L. Austin.

In English with excerpts in Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the problematics of exemplary discourse in nineteenth-century Spanish America -- From postcolonial subjects to ambivalent exemplars: Creole subjectivity in nineteenth-century Spanish American narrative -- Creole paternalism and ambivalent national subjectivity in Eugenio Cambaceres -- Exemplary modernism: the science of decadence in Jose Asuncion Silva's De sobremesa -- Monstrous progeny: fragile national ideologies in Jose Marti's Lucia Jerez -- Ideological psychosis and impotent compassion in Clorinda Matto de Turner -- Modeling multiplicity: gender and authority in Juana Manuela Gorrit's Cocina eclectica.