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Being in Common
Silvia Rosman
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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 413.
Being in Common analyzes key works of twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture as precursors of contemporary theories of globalization. In a richly researched and wide-ranging account, Silvia Rosman studies how texts from the 1940s and '50s by major Latin American authors, such as Alejo Carpentier, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Octavio Paz, and Jorge Luis Borges, provide alternatives to traditional forms of national, linguistic, or geographical belonging and thus allow us to think the commonality of experience differently. These texts offer articulations of community that challenge the totalizing and often violent homogeneity of identity or difference, the priority of the Subject ... Read more
Being in Common analyzes key works of twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture as precursors of contemporary theories of globalization. In a richly researched and wide-ranging account, Silvia Rosman studies how texts from the 1940s and '50s by major Latin American authors, such as Alejo Carpentier, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Octavio Paz, and Jorge Luis Borges, provide alternatives to traditional forms of national, linguistic, or geographical belonging and thus allow us to think the commonality of experience differently. These texts offer articulations of community that challenge the totalizing and often violent homogeneity of identity or difference, the priority of the Subject ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481877
SKU
V9781611481877
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About Silvia Rosman
Silvia Rosman teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Latin American Literary Review, Latin American Research Review, Hispanic Issues, Boletín, Hispanic Review, Revista Iberoamericana, and Variaciones Borges.
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