Title Latin America writes back : postmodernity in the periphery (an interdisciplinary perspective) / edited by Emil Volek

Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 282 pages) Series Hispanic issues ; volume 28 Hispanic issues (Routledge (Firm)) ; 28. Contents PART I. Macondo or death, but not exactly: the case of unrequited modernity that does not go away -- Traditionalism and modernity in Latin American culture / José Joaquín Brunner -- Modernity and postmodernity in the periphery ; Communications: decentering modernity / Jesús Martín Barbero -- PART II. Changing identities, or "Where do we come from" and "Where are we going?" -- Challenges of postmodernity and globalization: multiple or fragmented identities? / Fernando Ainsa -- Postmodernism and Latin American identity / Jorge Larraín -- Latin American identity, dramatized / José Joaquín Brunner -- PART III. Changing realities, politics, arts: strategies of/for resistance -- Autochthonous cultures and the global market / Mario Roberto Morales -- Post-cities and politics: new urban movements in the two Americas / Armando Silva -- Modern and postmodern aesthetics in contemporary Argentine theatre (1985-1997) / Osvaldo Pelletieri -- Polarized modernity: Latin America at the postmodern juncture / Raúl Bueno -- Latin American writer in these postmodern times / Abelardo Castillo -- PART IV. Changing cultural dossier: some classic texts from the 1990s -- Variations on postmodernity, or, what does the Latin American postboom mean? / Mempo Giardinelli -- Latin America and postmodernity / Nelly Richards -- Critique of global philosophy, five hundred years later / Rafael Ángel Herra -- Cultural topologies / Daniel Altamiranda, Hernán Thomas Summary Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the "postmodern condition" and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses about postmodernity have overwhelmingly been constructed by European and American intellectuals. Postmodernity in the Periphery is a groundbreaking collection of essays by Latin American scholars on the theories and practices of postmodernity. It provides an important forum for Latin American intellectuals to shape the debates on postmodernity that are based, to a large degree, on their own cultural and political experiences. Gathering together new and classic essays across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, this much-needed collection allows some of Latin America's leading cultural critics to "write back" to their Euro-American counterparts and join the international debate Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Postmodernism. Group identity -- Latin America LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Civilization -- Philosophy Group identity Postmodernism Spanish American literature Kultur Aufsatzsammlung Geschichte 1960-2002. SUBJECT Latin America -- Civilization -- Philosophy Subject Latin America Lateinamerika Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Volek, Emil ISBN 9781135815202 1135815208 0203726928 9780203726921

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