Critical Passions: Selected Essays (Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 1999
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occasional notes in pencil. vi, 536 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen Newman -- Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism -- Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (1985) -- Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum (1986) -- "Manhattan Will Be More Exotic This Fall": The Iconization of Frida Kahlo (1991) -- Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private (1992) -- La Malinche: From Gift to Sexual Contract (1992) -- The Finezas of Sor Juana (1993) -- From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic (1996) -- The Mares of the Apocalypse (1996) -- The Gender Wars (1996) -- Mass and Popular Culture -- A Not-So-Romantic Journey: British Travelers to South America, 1818-28 (1979) -- Narrator, Author, Superstar: Latin American Narrative in the Age of Mass Culture (1981) -- What's in a Name? Popular Culture Theories and Their Limitations (1982) -- High-Tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films (1993) -- What's Left of the Intelligentsia? The Uncertain Future of the Printed Word (1994) -- Globalization and the Crisis of the Popular (1996) -- Making Differences, Shifting Boundaries (1994) -- Latin American Literature: the Boom and Beyond -- Reading Vargas Llosa: Conversation Is Not Dialogue (1971) -- Lezama Lima in the Paradise of Poetry (1974) -- The Crisis of the Liberal Imagination and the Utopia of Writing (1976-1977) -- From Modernization to Resistance: Latin American Literature, 1959-1976 (1978) -- Dependent Industrialization and Onetti's The Shipyard (1980) -- The Utopia of a Tired Man: Jorge Luis Borges (1981). …
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- Title
- Critical Passions: Selected Essays (Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation)
- Author
- Jean Franco ; edited, and with an introduction by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 082232248X
- ISBN 13
- 9780822322481
- Seller catalogs
- Latin America, Literature
A key participant in the major debates in Latin American studies—beginning with the “boom” period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism—Franco is recognized for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. While her principal books are all readily available, Franco’s several dozen articles are dispersed in a variety of periodicals in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Although many of these essays are considered pioneering and classic, they have never before been collected in a single work. In this volume, Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman have organized the essays into four interrelated sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American literature from the “boom” onward, and the cultural history of Mexico. As a group, these writings demonstrate Franco’s ability to reflect on and judge with equal seriousness all spheres of expression, whether subway graffiti, a fashion manual, or an avant-garde haiku. A bona fide fan of popular and mass media, Franco never allows her critiques to dissolve into the puritanical or reductive; instead, she finds ways to present and debate complex theoretical questions in direct and accessible language.
This volume will draw an extensive readership in Latin American, cultural, and women’s studies.
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About the Author
Jean Franco (1924-2022) was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous books include Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence, and A Literary History of Spain and Spanish.
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