@article{ART003259449},
author={OH MINWOOK},
title={Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2025},
volume={76},
pages={121-156},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121}
TY - JOUR
AU - OH MINWOOK
TI - Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2025
VL - 76
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 121
EP - 156
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This study compares two novels: Sin rumbo (1885) by Eugenio Cambaceres, a leading Argentine naturalist, and Pascual Aguilera (1892) by Amado Nervo, a key figure in Mexican modernismo. Through a careful analysis of the intermediary positions held by the central characters in both works—situated between the traditional establishment and the emerging urban elite—this study explores the narrator’s perspective on the relationship between sexuality and national modernity. Specifically, it demonstrates how the representation of the relationship between urban and rural areas—a central issue in Latin American modernization—serves as a fictional criterion for delineating the normal and abnormal, grounded in the discourse of disease. Furthermore, it examines the construction, expansion, and eventual collapse of the schema of civilization and barbarism. Ultimately, this study reveals that the representation of modernity, space, and sexuality is a key narrative strategy that highlights the role of each novel in the national project envisioned by its author.
KW - naturalism;Modernismo;disease discourse;sexual deviance; city and rural areas
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
ER -
OH MINWOOK. (2025). Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera. Cross-Cultural Studies, 76, 121-156.
OH MINWOOK. 2025, "Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.76, pp.121-156. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK "Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera" Cross-Cultural Studies 76 pp.121-156 (2025) : 121.
OH MINWOOK. Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera. 2025; 76 121-156. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK. "Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera" Cross-Cultural Studies 76(2025) : 121-156.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK. Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera. Cross-Cultural Studies, 76, 121-156. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK. Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2025; 76 121-156. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK. Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera. 2025; 76 121-156. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
OH MINWOOK. "Modernity’s Others: Sexuality and Space in Sin Rumbo and Pascual Aguilera" Cross-Cultural Studies 76(2025) : 121-156.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..121
