Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares Gabriel J. Stylianides Cynthia Samuelson and Mildred Sexton

Cynthia Samuelson and Mildred Sexton

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Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares Gabriel J. Stylianides Cynthia Samuelson and Mildred SextonUtopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the literary