Latin Americanism: 3 (Cultural Studies of the Americas) - Softcover

De La Campa, Roman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816631174 ISBN 13: 9780816631179

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Synopsis

Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America.

In this timely book, RomÁn 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, and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction.

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. He examines 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. In a reconsideration of the vogue in Latin American literature and magical realism in light of new work by theorists residing in Latin America, he contrasts this work with critiques of Latin American discourses in the United States.

A critique of postmodern and postcolonial constructions as articulated differently in the United States and Latin America, this hard-hitting but fair-minded book provides a postdeconstructive perspective on culture and literature.

ISBN 0-8166-3116-6 Cloth £00.00 $47.95xx

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224 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 June

Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 3

Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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About the Author

RomÁn de la Campa is professor of Latin American and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816631174
• ISBN 13: 9780816631179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240