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1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures.
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| Contents |
The ethical superstition / Bruno Bosteels -- Ethics, perhaps / Gabriela Basterra -- Ethics and citizenship in the blogosphere: academics meet new technologies of online publication / Idelber Avelar -- Modernist ethics: really engaging popular culture in Mexico and Brazil / Esther Gabara -- A few notes on constructed worlds: the contradictory legacy of past decades / Sergio Chejfec -- Saying the unsayable: Saer, or for an ethics of writing / Gabriel Riera -- Infrapolitics and the thriller: a prolegomenon to every possible form of antimoralist literary criticism. On Héctor Aguilar Carmín's La guerra de Galio and Morir en el golfo / Alberto Moreiras -- Ethical asymmetries: learning to love a loss / Doris Sommer -- Reading for the people and getting there first / Francine Masiello |
| Summary |
The last several decades have witnessed a reorientation of the political and a globalization of the cultural in Latin America, shifting literature's function as a homogenizing, citizen-forming institution to a more dispersed, fragmented, and (potentially) democratic and liberating practice. At the same time, and perhaps in response to this cultural shift, the field of Latin American literary studies has expanded to include cultural studies, postcolonial theory, performance studies, gender studies, Africana studies, and subaltern studies, at once expanding and disrupting the boundaries of literature, criticism, and of Latin America itself. In light of these dramatic transformations within a globalized Latin American culture, as well as within the field of Latin American literary studies itself, what value can we attribute to aesthetics today? Is a reconsideration of artistic creation a mere return to the hegemonic lettered city described by Angel Rama? Or can we begin to think about an "ethical potential" inscribed within the act of reading, that is, an encounter with otherness that irreversibly alters the reading subject? |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Criticism -- Latin America
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Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Latin America
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Criticism
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Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Latin America
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Graff Zivin, Erin, editor.
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| LC no. |
2007003059 |
| ISBN |
9780230607385 |
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0230607381 |
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