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The Exhaustion of Difference – The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Autor Alberto Moreiras
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2001
The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in trans-national academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, post-Marxist theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world.
What, asks Moreiras, is the function of critical reason in the present moment? What is regionalistic knowledge in the face of globalisation? Can regionalistic knowledge be an effective tool for a critique of contemporary reason? What is the specificity of Latin Americanist reflection and how is it situated to deal with these questions? Through examinations of critical regionalism, restitutional excess, the historical genealogy of Latin American subalternism, testimonio literature, and the cultural politics of magical realism, Moreiras argues that while cultural studies is increasingly institutionalised and in danger of reproducing the dominant ideologies of late capitalism, it is also ripe for giving way to projects of theoretical reformulation. Ultimately, he claims, critical reason must abandon its allegiance to aesthetic-historicist projects and the destructive binaries upon which all cultural theories of modernity have been constructed.
The Exhaustion of Difference makes a significant contribution to the rethinking of Latin American cultural studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822327240
ISBN-10: 0822327244
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 167 x 233 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique
1. Global Fragments
>2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism

>3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits
>4. Restitution and Appropriation
>5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges
>6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier
>7. The Aura of Testimonio
>8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques
>9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness
Notes
Works Cited
Index


Recenzii

"The time is certainly ripe for a book with the ambition and competence this one doubtlesshas. . . . it succeeds admirably in its project of intellectually ransoming and enhancing LatinAmericanism, and of clearing a space for meaningful debate."--Journal of Latin AmericanStudies, Vol 35, part 1, February 2003________

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"With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field's epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America."--Nelly Richard, Editor, "Revista de Critica Cultural"

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A sophisticated theoretical reconsideration of Latin American studies, critiquing past work and proposing new frameworks for the discipline.