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Thresholds of Illiteracy is destined to make an indelible mark in Latin American literary critical and cultural studies. One of the book's major theoretical contributions resides in Acosta's highly original development of what he calls illiteracy, which sustains a number of interrelated senses and metonymical associations related to classical ethnography, postcolonial studies and contemporary debates in political thought. Acosta deals very capably with a wide range of geographical and cultural contexts, including Peru, Cuba, Central America, Mexico and the US-Mexico border. . . --Patrick Dove, Indiana University . . . it [the book] is important and significant-perhaps even vital-in a number of ways. -Posthegemony

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Abraham Acosta is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University ofArizona.

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