LEADER 03962nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910826272503321 005 20230208014953.0 010 $a0-674-26357-X 010 $a0-674-03717-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037175 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805456 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147057 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064792 035 $a(PQKB)11305850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326132 035 $a(OCoLC)923111848 035 $a(DE-B1597)574383 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037175 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805456 100 $a20011011d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe decline and fall of the lettered city$b[electronic resource] $eLatin America in the Cold War /$fJean Franco 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2002 215 $aviii, 341 p 225 1 $aConvergences 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00752-2 311 $a0-674-00842-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tI. Conflicting Universals --$t1. Killing Them Softly: The ColdWar and Culture --$t2. Communist Manifestos --$t3. Liberated Territories --$tII. Peripheral Fantasies --$t4. Antistates --$t5. The Black Angel of Lost Time --$t6. The Magic of Alterity --$tIII. A Cultural Revolution --$t7. Cultural Revolutions: Trouble in the City --$t8. The Seduction of Margins --$t9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization --$t10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History --$t11. Inside the Empire --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts by García Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving. 410 0$aConvergences (Cambridge, Mass.) 606 $aLatin American literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zLatin America 607 $aLatin America$xCivilization$y1948- 615 0$aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 676 $a860.9/98/09045 700 $aFranco$b Jean$f1924-2022.$01610685 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826272503321 996 $aThe decline and fall of the lettered city$93938532 997 $aUNINA