Latin Americanism / Román de la Campa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De la Campa, Román.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Summary:

In this timely book, Roman de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America's own cultural, political, and literary practices. De la Campa focuses on the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in U.S. universities and compares this with the "Latin Americanism" of Latin America itself.

By examining the translation of Latin American works into English, the careerism of U.S. intellectuals, the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in English, and the diaspora of Third World intellectuals, de la Campa offers a critique of postmodern and postcolonial constructions as articulated differently in the United States and Latin America.

Contents:

1. Latin Americanism and the Turns beyond Modernity 1

2. Postmodernism and Revolution: Borges, Che, and Other Slippages 31

3. Of Border Artists and Transculturation: Toward a Politics of Transmodern Performances 57

4. Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse 85

5. The Lettered City: Power and Writing in Latin America 121

6. Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Cultural Studies 149.

ISBN:

0816631174