Vernacular Latin Americanisms : war, the market, and the making of a discipline / Fernando Degiovanni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Degiovanni, Fernando, author.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Latin American literature.

Latin America--Study and teaching (Higher).

Latin America.

Latin America--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In Vernacular Latin Americanisms, Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and still inform their function in the globalized and neoliberal university of today. By doing so he provides a reevaluation of a field whose epistemological and political status has obsessed its participants up until the present. The book focuses on the emergence of Latin Americanism as a field of critical debate and scholarly inquiry between the 1890s and the 1960s. Drawing on contemporary theory, intellectual history, and extensive archival research, Degiovanni explores in particular how the discourse and realities of war and capitalism have left an indelible mark on the formation of disciplinary perspectives on Latin American cultures in both the United States and Latin America. Questioning the premise that Latin Americanism as a discipline comes out of the tradition of continental identity developed by prominent intellectuals such as José Martí, José E. Rodó or José Vasconcelos, Degiovanni proposes that the scholars who established the discipline did not set out to defend Latin America as a place of uncontaminated spiritual values opposed to a utilitarian and materialist United States. Their mission was entirely different, even the opposite: giving a place to culture in the consolidation of alternative models of regional economic cooperation at moments of international armed conflict. For scholars theorizing Latin Americanism in market terms, this meant questioning nativist and cosmopolitan narratives about identity; it also meant abandoning any Bolivarian project of continental unity or of socialist internationalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Knavish Latin Americans

A teacher-spy from Brooklyn

Colonizing an empire

Policing the field

University rebels

A discipline of war

The history of a best seller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Erscheint auch als Vernacular Latin Americanisms

ISBN:

9780822986355

0822986353