Title The decline and fall of the lettered city : Latin America in the Cold War / Jean Franco

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 341 pages) Series Convergences : inventories of the present Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.) Contents Introduction -- I : Conflicting universals -- Killing them softly : the Cold War and culture ; Communist manifestos ; Liberated territories -- II : Peripheral fantasies -- Antistates ; Black angel of lost time ; Magic of alterity -- III : Cultural revolution -- Cultural revolutions : trouble in the city ; Seduction of margins ; Bodies in distress : narratives of globalization ; Obstinate memory : tainted history ; Inside the empire Summary The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts by García Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Latin America LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American. Civilization Latin American literature Literature and society Spaans. Letterkunde. Koude Oorlog. SUBJECT Latin America -- Civilization -- 1948- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074882 Subject Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674037175 0674037170 9780674007529 0674007522 0674008421 9780674008427

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