Description
Book SynopsisContests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture.
Trade Review"Colás dares enter the postmodernism debate and ably takes on its leading thinkers. Not only literary critics and theoreticians, but historians, political scientists, and sociologists, too, will have to cite this study as an informed and solidly grounded foray into their respective disciplines."—Jonathan Tittler, Cornell University
"Santiago Colás’s book is one of the most richly nuanced contributions to the ‘postmodernism in Latin America’ debate yet to appear."—Neil Larsen, Northeastern University
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix
1. Resisting Postmodernity 1
I. Latin American Modernity 21
2. Beyond Western Modernity?
Rayuela as Critique 23
3. Toward a Latin American Modernity:
Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap 50
4. Latin American Modernity in Crisis:
El beso de la mujer arana and the Argentine National Left 76
5. Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity 100
II. Argentine Postmodernity 119
6. Resu
citatating History in
Respiracion artificial 121
7. The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron 149
III. Conclusion 159
8. Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities 161
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Index 221
