| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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Latin America otherwise |
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Latin America otherwise.
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| Contents |
Part I. Masks -- 1. In Search of a Subject: Latin American Intellectuals at Century's End -- 2. The Spectacle of "Difference" --- Part II. Maps -- 3. Gender Traffic on the North/South Horizon -- 4. Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Sexuality --- Part III. Markets -- 5. The Politics of the Test: Experience, Representation, and the Return of lo popular -- 6. From Museum to Street: Poetry for the New Millennium |
| Summary |
"The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to democracy and the formal strategies of wrestling with this change that are found in the aesthetic realm. Masiello views representation as both a political and artistic device, concerned with the tensions between truth and lies, experience and language, and intellectuals and the marginal subjects they study and claim to defend. These often contentious negotiations, she argues, are most provocatively displayed through the spectacle of difference, which constantly crosses the literary stage, the market, and the North/South divide. While forcefully defending the ability of literature and art to advance ethical positions and to foster a critical view of neoliberalism, Masiello especially shows how issues of gender and sexuality function as integrating threads throughout this cultural project. Through discussions of visual art as well as literary work by prominent novelists and poets, Masiello sketches a broad landscape of vivid intellectual debate in the Southern Cone of Latin America."--Book cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) 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 |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Spanish American literature -- History and criticism
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Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Southern Cone of South America
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Art -- Political aspects -- Southern Cone of South America
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Art -- Social aspects -- Southern Cone of South America
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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HISTORY / Latin America / General
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Art and society
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Art -- Political aspects
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Intellectual life
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Literature and society
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Spanish American literature
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Kultur
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Neoliberalismus
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| SUBJECT |
Southern Cone of South America -- Intellectual life
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South America -- Southern Cone of South America
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Argentinien
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Chile
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001040217 |
| ISBN |
9780822381389 |
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0822381389 |
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1282904000 |
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9781282904002 |
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9786612904004 |
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6612904003 |
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