| Description |
1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural Studies of the Americas |
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Cultural studies of the Americas.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Latin Americanism and the Turns beyond Modernity; 2. Postmodernism and Revolution: Borges, Che, and Other Slippages; 3. Of Border Artists and Transculturation: Toward a Politics of Transmodern Performances; 4. Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse; 5. The Lettered City: Power and Writing in Latin America; 6. Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Cultural Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this timely book, Romn de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin Americas own cultural, political, and literary practices, and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Criticism -- Historiography
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Criticism -- Historiography
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Latin American prose literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816688968 |
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0816688966 |
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