The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives: Collected Essays and Interviews / Edition 1

by Claudia Ferman

Overview

This volume of new and reprinted articles, many translated here into English for the first time, examines the conditions, characteristics, and implications of the debate on Latin American Postmodernism, presenting an up-to-date rendering of its crucial issues. Special considerations are given to the theoretical aspects, such as ideological, political, literary-critical, and cultural implications. The scope of this debate embraces such matters as the problematic modernization of Latin America, cultural and political reformulation in the face of the media explosion, new critical perspectives facing the collapse of utopian ideologies, and new literary production: women's writing, and testimonio. Contributors include John Beverly, Antonio Ben'tez-Rojo and Antonio Vera-Le-n, Celeste Olalquiaga, Arturo Arias, Santiago Col s, Nelly Richard, Jesoes Mart'n-Barbero, Iumna Maria Simon, and Vinicius Dantas. The collection also contains some of the editor's personal interviews with scholars involved in this debate who live and work in Latin America: Roger Bartra and Jorge Juanes (Mexico), and Nicol s Casullo (Argentina).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815313304
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/1996
Series:	Latin American Studies , #3
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claudia Ferman

Table of Contents

Introduction, Acknowledgments, Voices in the South, Interviews, Voices in the North, Biographical Notes, Index

Editorial Reviews

Thirteen new and reprinted articles (some appearing in English for the first time) examine the ideological, political, literary-critical, and cultural implications of the modernization of Latin America. They also consider the cultural and political reformulation, media explosion, the collapse of utopian ideology, new literary production, and women's writing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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