Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While...
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Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been bot
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-220) and index
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Resisting Postmodernity; I Latin American Modernity; 2 Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique; 3 Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap; 4 Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer araña and the Argentine National Left; 5 Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity; II Argentine Postmodernity; 6 Resuscitating History in Respiración artificial; 7 The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Perón; III Conclusion
8 Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American PostmodernitiesNotes; Bibliography; Index