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Book SynopsisIs the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda of society's hegemonic currents?
Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation engages in a discussion of the problem of this potentially unbreakable affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony. Through five twentieth-century Mexican literary works:
Pedro Páramo (1955, Juan Rulfo);
Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969, Elena Poniatowska); three short stories from
Ciudad Real (1960, Rosario Castellanos);
Llanto: Novelas imposibles (1992, Carmen Boullosa); and
Muertos incómodos (falta lo que falta) (2005, Subcomandate Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II), this book attempts to examine the contradictory phenomenon that emerges when intellectuals' desire to represent a marginalized subject or history
