The art of transition : Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis

Author(s)

• Masiello, Francine

Bibliographic Information

The art of transition : Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis

Francine Masiello

（Latin America otherwise）

Duke University Press, 2001

• : cloth
• : paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to democracy and the formal strategies of wrestling with this change that are found in the aesthetic realm. Masiello views representation as both a political and artistic device, concerned with the tensions between truth and lies, experience and language, and intellectuals and the marginal subjects they study and claim to defend. These often contentious negotiations, she argues, are most provocatively displayed through the spectacle of difference, which constantly crosses the literary stage, the market, and the North/South divide. While forcefully defending the ability of literature and art to advance ethical positions and to foster a critical view of neoliberalism, Masiello especially shows how issues of gender and sexuality function as integrating threads throughout this cultural project. Through discussions of visual art as well as literary work by prominent novelists and poets, Masiello sketches a broad landscape of vivid intellectual debate in the Southern Cone of Latin America. The Art of Transition will interest Latin Americanists,literary and political theorists, art critics and historians, and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalization.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Masks 1. In Search of a Subject: Latin American Intellectuals at Century's End 2. The Spectacle of "Difference" Part II. Maps 3. Gender Traffic on the North/South Horizon 4. Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Sexuality Part III. Markets 5. The Politics of the Test: Experience, Representation, and the Return of lo popular 6. From Museum to Street: Poetry for the New Millennium Notes Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BA57734777
• ISBN:
  • 0822328062
  • 0822328186
• LCCN: 2001040217
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham, [N.C.] ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 334 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ7551
  • DC21 : 860.9/98
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Spanish American literature -- Southern Cone of South America -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Southern Cone of South America
  • LCSH : Art -- Political aspects -- Southern Cone of South America
  • LCSH : Southern Cone of South America -- Intellectual life
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA32668967