The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations

Author:   Fernando G Herrero
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
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9781839991622


Pages:   388
Publication Date:   01 April 2025
Format:   Hardback
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The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations


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An important contribution that offers crucial insights to university life in the contemporary United States (from the 1980s to today) through extensive interviews that reveal the trajectory of Latin American Studies and by extension Hispanic studies in the United States from the early 1980s to the present. The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs 'Latin' and 'Hispanic' in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).

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Author:   Fernando G Herrero
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9781839991622


ISBN 10:   1839991623
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   01 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction ; 1 Avatars of Colonial Studies of Latin America in the Home of the Brave: A Conversation with Rolena Adorno; 2 About the Postmodernist Convergence of the Baroque, the Subaltern, and Many Other Signs: A Conversation with John Beverley in the Cathedral of Learning; 3 The Pleasure of Literary Criticism without Attachments to Any Method or Ideology Whatsoever: A Conversation with Roberto González Echevarría; 4 About the Colonial Difference or the Emergence of Thinking That Was Not Considered to Be Thinking: A Conversation with Walter D. Mignolo; 5 Precolombian Legacies and Indigenous Presents in the History of Mexico; Or How to Find Other Possibilities within Constitutive (Post-)Colonial Violence: A Conversation with José Rabasa; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

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Course Title: After the Philanthropic Ogre: The (Latin-)American Scene in the US from 1980 to today


Course Title: After the Philanthropic Ogre: The (Latin-)American Scene in the US from 1980 to today “These conversations with five of the region’s most outstanding scholars of the past fifty years reveal just how ‘Latin’ America went from being a subject of what was once called ‘area studies’ to become a central part of a dynamic new vision of the global order. It is a remarkably illuminating and challenging achievement.” — Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor, UCLA College, CA, USA “A collection of interviews originally published in Spanish, this book sheds light on the origins of decolonial and postcolonial studies in US universities in Spanish Departments. It assembles a valuable set of primary sources on the intellectual history of the cultural studies turn in Latin American Studies in the early 2000s.” — Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, The University of Texas at Austin, USA “This thought-provoking and inspirational collection of interviews with some of the most field-defining exponents of Latin American literary and cultural criticism offers a uniquely dialogical perspective into some of the most significant issues and themes they have individually explored and theorized about. It also provides a necessary and timely assessment of how this academic field has changed for the past three decades in response to unprecedented critical, cultural and political scenarios.” — Ignacio Corona, co-editor of Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border “This is a very innovative book, which includes five interviews with fundamental academic intellectuals, who share extremely relevant information about Latin American Studies in both American and International Academia. This volume aligns with other related essential interview books about Literature and Area Studies, but most of them are not so much focused on expanding on the opinion of key critics who openly share their approaches to both practical and intellectual critical information about academic departments and future trends in Latin American Studies discipline development. This book is a must for any Latin American Studies scholar interested in the recent intellectual development of the discipline.” —Vicente Pérez de León, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Modern Languages and Cultures/Sgoil nan Nua-Chànan is nan Cultar, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RS, UK


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Fernando G Herrero is the author of Sobre post colonialismos maltrechos, descolonizaciones malogradas y angostamientos universitarios, Revista Umbral: Un Mundo en Crisis y Las Humanidades: Sus Retos y Futuro (Universidad de Puerto Rico) and The Latest American Appropriation of Western Universalism: A Critique of G. John Ikenberry 'Liberal International Order.' He has taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester in Britain, and Duke University, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, Hofstra University, and Oberlin College among others in the United States. In July 2024, he will be joining as Associate Professor of Spanish and English, the international faculty team of Wenzhou Business College, University City, Wenzhou, China.

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