The ends of literature : the Latin American "boom" in the neoliberal marketplace / Brett Levinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Brett, 1959-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish American literature.

Literature and society--Latin America.

Literature and society.

Latin America.

Liberalism--Latin America.

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

"The Ends of Literature" analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism.

Contents:

1 The Ends of Literature as Neoliberal Act: An Opening 10

2 Social Movements and the Literary: A Postdictatorship Parable of a Political Ontology 31

3 Trans(re)lations: Disaster and "Literary Politics" (Reading Piglia's 'Respiracion Artificial') 55

4 Toward a Psychoanalysis of Culture: Sex, Nation, and the Praxis of the Liminal in 'American Me' and 'The Labyrinth of Solitude' 82

5 The Lost Steps of the Pedagogy of Postcolonial Studies: Otherness and Truth 107

6 The Imperialist Unconscious: Spanish Colonialism and the End of (the) Discovery 128

7 'I, Rigoberta Menchu' as Allegory of Death 142

8 The Bind Between Deconstruction and Subalternity, or, the Latin Americanist Nation 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index.

ISBN:

0804743452

0804743460

OCLC:

48056888