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Latin Americanism

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Description for Latin Americanism paperback. Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.

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 ... Read more

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

ISBN 0-8166-3117-4 Paper £00.00 $18.95x

224 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 June

Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 3

Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Studies of the Americas S.
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816631179
SKU
V9780816631179
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About Roman de La Campa
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.

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