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Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses about postmodernity have overwhelmingly been constructed by European and American intellectuals. This book is a groundbreaking collection of essays by Latin American scholars on the theories and practices of postmodernity. It provides an important forum for Latin American intellectuals to shape the debates on postmodernity that are based, to a large degree, on their own cultural and political experiences. Gathering together new and classic essays across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, this much-needed collection allows some of Latin America's leading cultural critics to write back to their Euro-American counterparts and join the international debate.

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Author:   Emil Volek
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138012080

ISBN 10:   1138012084
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   19 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Macondo or Death, But Not Exactly; Chapter 1 Traditionalism and Modernity in Latin American Culture, José Joaquín Brunner, Shara Moseley; Chapter 2 Modernity and Postmodernity in the Periphery, Jesús Martín Barbero, Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras; Chapter 3 Communications, Jesús Martín Barbero, Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras; Part 2 Changing Identities, or “Where do we come from” and “Where we are going?”; Chapter 4 The Challenges of Posmodernity and Globalization, Fernando Ainsa, Barbara Riess; Chapter 5 Postmodernism and Latin American Identity, Jorge Larraín; Chapter 6 Latin American Identity—Dramatized, José Joaquín Brunner, Shara Moseley; Part 3 Changing Realities, Politics, Arts: Strategies of/for Resistance; Chapter 7 Autochthonous Cultures and the Global Market, Mario Roberto Morales, Eva L. Ramírez; Chapter 8 Post-Cities and Politics, Armando Silva, Mary Louise Babineau; Chapter 9 Modern and Postmodern Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentine Theater (1985–1997), Osvaldo Pelletieri, Mary Louise Babineau; Chapter 10 Polarized Modernity, Raúl Bueno, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Chapter 11 The Latin American Writer in These Postmodern Times, Abelardo Castillo, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Part 4 Changing Cultural Dossier: Some Classic Texts from the 1990s; Chapter 12 Variations on Postmodernity, or, What Does the Latin American Postboom Mean?, Mempo Giardinelli, Daniel Joseph Smith; Chapter 13 Latin America and Postmodernity, Nelly Richards, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Chapter 14 Critique of Global Philosophy, Five Hundred Years Later, Rafael Ángel Herra, Sukhada Kilambi; Chapter 15 Cultural Topologies, Daniel Altamiranda, Hernán Thomas, Jean Graham-Jones; Chapter 16 Afterword, Horacio Machín;

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Emil Volek is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University and is a widely recognized authority on Latin American literature.

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