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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457386703321

Autore

De la Campa Román

Titolo

Latin Americanism [[electronic resource] /] / Román de la Campa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1999

ISBN

0-8166-8896-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

868

Soggetti

Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Criticism - Historiography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Latin Americanism and the Turns beyond Modernity; 2. Postmodernism and Revolution: Borges, Che, and Other Slippages; 3. Of Border Artists and Transculturation: Toward a Politics of Transmodern Performances; 4. Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse; 5. The Lettered City: Power and Writing in Latin America; 6. Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Cultural Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely book, Román de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America's own cultural, political, and literary practices, and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction.