Description
Book SynopsisAttempts to correct misleading interpretations of literature and culture dominating Latin American studies in North America, by proposing a new historical materialist approach to Latin America texts and cultural practices.
Table of ContentsPart 1 "Occupation texts": teaching Caribbean texts - outline for a counterhegemonizing pedagogy; "people without history" - central America in the literary imagination of the metropolis. Part 2 Sui generis: narrating the "trujillato"; "Boom" novel and the Cold War in Latin America. Part 3 Uncivil society: sport as civil society - Argentina's generals play championship soccer; hegemony or idelogy? observations on Brazilian fascism and the criticism of Roberto Schwarz. Part 4 Recolonizations: aesthetics and the question of colonial "discourse"; phenomenology and colony - Edmundo O'Gorman's "The Invention of America". part 5 Culture and nation: split nationalities; indigenism, cultural nationalism, and the problem of universality; nation and narratin in Latin America - critical reflections. Part 6 Postmodernity: latin America and postmodernism - a brief theoretical inquiry; postmodernism and imperialism - theory and politics in Latin America. Part 7 "Cultural studies": the cultural studies movement and Latin America - an overview; transcultural/subpolitical - pitfalls of "hybridity"; Brazilian critical theory and the question of cultural studies.
