The postmodernism debate in Latin America / edited by John Beverley, Michael Aronna, and Jose Oviedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beverley, John.

Aronna, Michael.

Oviedo, José.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

a boundary 2 book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Latin America--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Postmodernism--Latin America.

Postmodernism.

Latin America--Civilization--20th century--Philosophy.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America.This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to present a regional variant of the concept than to situate it in a transnational framework. Recognizing that postmodernism in Latin America can only inaccurately be thought of as having travele

Contents:

Contents; Note to This Edition; Introduction; Our Identity Starting from Pluralism in the Base; Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture; Latin American Identity and Mixed Temporalities; or, How to be Postmodern and Indian at the Same Time; Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures); The Hybrid: A Conversation with Margarita Zires, Raymundo Mier, and Mabel Piccini; Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America; Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America; Founding Statement; A Disenchantment Called Postmodernism

Postwork Society and Postmodern SubjectivitiesFeminism: Modern or Postmodern?; Modernity, Identity, and Utopia in Latin America; Cultural Peripheries: Latin America and Postmodernist De-centering; The Peripheral Center of Postmodernism: On Borges, García Márquez, and Alterity; Reading and Discursive Intensities: On the Situation of Postmodern Reception in Brazil; Aesthetics and Post-Politics: From Fujimori to the Gulf War; National by Imitation; Postmodernism, Postleftism, and Neo-Avant-Gardism: The Case of Chile's Revista de Crítica Cultural; Reply to Vidal (from Chile)

Declaration from the Lacandon JungleContributors; Index

Notes:

"A Boundary 2 book."

"The text of this book was originally published as volume 20, number 3 of Boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, with the exception of the following additional material: Neil Larsen, "Postmodernism and imperialism"; Maria Milagros Lopez, "Postwork society and postmodern subjectivities"; Raquel Olea, "Feminism: modern or postmodern?"; Roberto Schwarz, "National by imitation"; and The declaration from the Lacandon Jungle by the Zapatista National Liberation Army"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06288-7

9786613062888

0-8223-8268-7

OCLC:

220951273