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Throughout an impressive exploration in personal and institutional archives, Degiovanni rebuilds the history of Latin Americanism as a discipline. He revamps the classical intellectual history approach with incisive readings of the ways in which transnational links, academic markets, politics of knowledge, and personal ambitions shaped the emergence of the field. Vernacular Latin Americanisms shows the battles for the power of knowledge. --Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University The book's most notable achievement is its way of situating these intellectual productions, often isolated from the contexts from which they emerged, by bringing to light the deep historical and political value of culture, and in this specific case of the birth of Latin Americanism as a discipline. --Michela Coletta, E.I.A.L.

The book's most notable achievement is its way of situating these intellectual productions, often isolated from the contexts from which they emerged, by bringing to light the deep historical and political value of culture, and in this specific case of the birth of Latin Americanism as a discipline. --Michela Coletta, E.I.A.L. Throughout an impressive exploration in personal and institutional archives, Degiovanni rebuilds the history of Latin Americanism as a discipline. He revamps the classical intellectual history approach with incisive readings of the ways in which transnational links, academic markets, politics of knowledge, and personal ambitions shaped the emergence of the field. Vernacular Latin Americanisms shows the battles for the power of knowledge. --Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University

Throughout an impressive exploration in personal and institutional archives, Degiovanni rebuilds the history of Latin Americanism as a discipline. He revamps the classical intellectual history approach with incisive readings of the ways in which transnational links, academic markets, politics of knowledge, and personal ambitions shaped the emergence of the field. Vernacular Latin Americanisms shows the battles for the power of knowledge. --Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University

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Fernando Degiovanni is professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the winner of the 2010 Alfredo Roggiano Prize for Latin American Cultural and Literary Criticism by the International Institute for Ibero-

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