The art of transition : Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis / Francine Masiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masiello, Francine.

Series:

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Southern Cone of South America.

Literature and society.

Art--Political aspects--Southern Cone of South America.

Art.

Art--Political aspects.

Southern Cone of South America--Intellectual life.

Southern Cone of South America.

Intellectual life.

South America--Southern Cone of South America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.

Summary:

"The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to democracy and the formal strategies of wrestling with this change that are found in the aesthetic realm. Masiello views representation as both a political and artistic device, concerned with the tensions between truth and lies, experience and language, and intellectuals and the marginal subjects they study and claim to defend. These often contentious negotiations, she argues, are most provocatively displayed through the spectacle of difference, which constantly crosses the literary stage, the market, and the North/South divide. While forcefully defending the ability of literature and art to advance ethical positions and to foster a critical view of neoliberalism, Masiello especially shows how issues of gender and sexuality function as integrating threads throughout this cultural project. Through discussions of visual art as well as literary work by prominent novelists and poets, Masiello sketches a broad landscape of vivid intellectual debate in the Southern Cone of Latin America."--Book cover.

Contents:

Part I. Masks

1. In Search of a Subject: Latin American Intellectuals at Century's End

2. The Spectacle of "Difference"

- Part II. Maps

3. Gender Traffic on the North/South Horizon

4. Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Sexuality

- Part III. Markets

5. The Politics of the Test: Experience, Representation, and the Return of lo popular

6. From Museum to Street: Poetry for the New Millennium.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index.

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Winner, 2001

Other Format:

Online version: Masiello, Francine. Art of transition.

ISBN:

0822328062

9780822328063

0822328186

9780822328186

OCLC:

47097060