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Ileana Rodriguez invites us to explore the limits of liberalism in Latin America. Her book is a tense and intricate weave that connects cultural studies with political science and history. State failures turn out to be over-determined by the inherent flaws in liberalism itself, magnified into outright breeches of reason in Latin America, and by the inauspicious context that tries liberalism. But readers will also perceive a profound admiration for both the challenging context and the political agility it can foster. At the limits of liberalism are intimations of resourceful hybridity that develop at the margins of spectacular failure. - Doris Sommer, Harvard University An ambitious, powerfully insightful book, a significant intervention in reframing the study of Latin American cultural politics. The three case studies could not be more pertinent. Rodriguez sets a benchmark for mature synthetic scholarship. - Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor, New York University

Ileana Rodriguez invites us to explore the limits of liberalism in Latin America. Her book is a tense and intricate weave that connects cultural studies with political science and history. State failures turn out to be over-determined by the inherent flaws in liberalism itself, magnified into outright breeches of reason in Latin America, and by the inauspicious context that tries liberalism. But readers will also perceive a profound admiration for both the challenging context and the political agility it can foster. At the limits of liberalism are intimations of resourceful hybridity that develop at the margins of spectacular failure. - Doris Sommer, Harvard University An ambitious, powerfully insightful book, a significant intervention in reframing the study of Latin American cultural politics. The three case studies could not be more pertinent. Rodriguez sets a benchmark for mature synthetic scholarship. - Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor, New York University

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Ileana Rodriguez is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. She has authored several books, including Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles and Women, Guerrillas, and L

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