The places of history : regionalism revisited in Latin America
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The places of history : regionalism revisited in Latin America
Duke University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood.
Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known and respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano and Nuyorican habitats; from turn of the century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence and dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera and Brazil's move beyond monarchy; and from the precarious survival of Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (June 1996), this expanded edition includes a new introduction by Doris Sommer and a new essay by Vincente Rafael. Viewed together, these essays reveal a cultural richness that is sure to interest literary scholars and Latin Americanists alike.Contributors. Carlos J. Alonso, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, John Beverley, Debra A. Castillo, Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, Juan Flores, Mary M. Gaylord, Jose Limon, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello, Antonio Mazzotti, Walter D. Mignolo, Sylvia Molloy, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincente Rafael, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Roberto Schwarz, Diana Taylor, Nancy Vogeley
Table of Contents
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America / Doris Sommer
The Corpus Delicti / Josefina Ludmer
Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile / Mary Louise Pratt
The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis / Roberto Schwarz
Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism / Walter D. Mignolo
The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / Jose Antonio Mazzotti
The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections / Mary M. Gaylord
The Burden of Modernity / Carlos J. Alonso
Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonomista Tradition / Arcadio Diaz-Quinones
Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of Simon Rodriguez / Susana Rotker
Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's Fin de Siglo / Francine Masiello
Italian Opera in Early National Mexico / Nancy Vogeley
The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) / John Beverley
Reading Loose Women Reading / Debra A. Castillo
"Damnable Iteration": The Traps of Political Spectacle / Diana Taylor
Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project / Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael
Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance / Jose E. Limon
The Repose of Heroes / Julio Ramos
His America, Our America: Jose Marti Reads Whitman / Sylvia Molloy
Broken English Memories / Juan Flores
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