Modernity according to José Joaquín Brunner: From Oedipus to Sisyphus

Abstract

In this article I discuss José Joaquin Brunner 's cultural analysis ofLatin American culture centering on (a) the Latin American meanings of "Modernity " and "Postmodernity, " (b) the meanings of "hybrid" and "subaltern " experiences as bridges between Postmodernity and New Spain by way of the "linea facündica" (Facundian invariant) ofLatin America (Martinez Estrada), (c) the meanings of "mirror" and "mirroring" as optic allegories of the Latin American subject's twofold constitution, (d) the meanings of modern culture as "a privileged space of mediations " and as the revelation of the nation in a communicative way, and (e) the interpretation of the crossroads, in the Oedipal sense, but with the inner conviction of the Camusian Sisyphus.