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Book SynopsisExplores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism in an effort to situate it in a transnational framework.
Table of ContentsNote to This Edition vii
Introduction / John Beverley and José Oviedo 1
Our Identity Starting from Pluralism in the Base / Xavier Albó 18
Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture / José Joaquín Brunner 34
Latin American Identity and Mixed Temporalities; or, How to be Postmodern and Indian at the Same Time / Fernando Calderón 55
Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures) / Enrique Dussel 65
The Hybrid: A Conversation with Margarita Zires, Raymundo Mier, and Mabel Piccini / Néstor García Canclini 77
Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America / Martín Hopenhayn 93
Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America / Neil Larsen 110
Founding Statement / Latin American Subaltern Studies Group 135
A Disenchantment Called Postmodernism / Norbert Lechner 147
Postwork Society and Postmodern Subjectivities / María Milagros López 165
Feminism: Modern or Postmodern? / Raquel Olea 192
Modernity, Identity, and Utopia in Latin America / Aníbal Quijano 201
Cultural Peripheries: Latin America and Postmodernist De-centering / Nelly Richard 217
The Peripheral Center of Postmodernism: On Borges, García Márquez, and Alterity / Carlos Rincón 223
Reading and Discursive Intensities: On the Situation of Postmodern Reception in Brazil / Silviano Santiago 241
Aesthetics and Post-Politics: From Fujimori to the Gulf War / Beatriz Sarlo 250
National by Imitation / Roberto Schwarz 264
Postmodernism, Postleftism, and Neo-Avant-Gardism: The Case of Chile's
Revista de Critica Cultural / Hernán Vidal 282
Reply to Vidal (from Chile) / Nelly Richard 307
Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle / Zapatista National Liberation Army 311
Contributors 314
Index 318
