{"product_id":"reading-north-by-south-on-latin-american-literature-culture-and-politics-9780816625840","title":"Reading North by South On Latin American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttempts 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 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.","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359213224279,"sku":"9780816625840","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816625840.jpg?v=1754123996","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-north-by-south-on-latin-american-literature-culture-and-politics-9780816625840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}