{"product_id":"critical-passions-9780822322481","title":"Critical Passions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the \"boom\" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A formidable compendium of Franco’s critical thought, attesting to the evolution of a brilliant avant-garde intellectual who has set the pace for serious inquiry in the Latin American field as we know it today. \u003ci\u003eCritical Passions\u003c\/i\u003e is not simply a tribute to Franco but an urgent recounting of the progression of a field of study that she has helped shape.”—Francine Masiello, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pratt and Newman have done the critical readership an immense service by collecting these far-flung essays by one of our foremost critics. This learned feminist touches upon issues of history and identity, of cultural politics and the study of globality, from a political perspective that remains resolutely focused on social justice.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected in this volume reflect the range, innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have made Jean Franco’s work a beacon of light in the study of Latin American culture.”—Susan Kirkpatrick, author of \u003ci\u003eLas Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Committed Critic \/ Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism 9\u003cbr\u003e 2 Mass and Popular Culture 133\u003cbr\u003e 3 Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond 233\u003cbr\u003e 4 Mexico 429\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Twighlight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995) 503\u003cbr\u003e Biographical Note 517\u003cbr\u003e Index 519","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406022091095,"sku":"9780822322481","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822322481.jpg?v=1730494272","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-passions-9780822322481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}