Title Rethinking intellectuals in Latin America / Mabel Moraña and Bret Gustafson, eds

Published Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert ; Norwalk, CT : Iberoamericana Vervuert Pub. Corp., 2010

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Description 1 online resource Series South by Midwest ; 2 South by Midwest ; 2. Contents Rethinking intellectuals in Latin America : questions and problems / Mabel Moraña -- Intellectuals and mestisaje : Inca Garcilaso, Blas Valera, and the organic function of colonial letrados / José Antonio Mazzotti -- Black, famous, and out of place : an alternative intellectual in early nineteenth-century Montevideo / William G. Acree, Jr. -- Triumph of the will : the annihilation of Ariel in Manuel Gálvez's Calibán / Gonzalo Aguilar -- The professor and the worker : using Brazil to better understand Latin America's plural left / John D. French -- Cosmopolitan theory and anthropological practice in Brazil / Jan Hoffman French -- Poststructuralism in the periphery : Nelly Richard's intellectual transpositions / Ana del Sarto -- Plata quemada : banditry, neoliberalism and the dilemma of literature at the end of the twentieth century / Juan Pablo Dabove -- Intellectuales in Cuba : facing a future that is already present / Arturo Arango -- Political-epistemic insurgency, social movements, and the refounding of the state / Catherine Walsh -- Maya daykeepers and the politics of sacred space / Ixq'anil, Judith M. Maxwell -- Maya knowledges / Ajpub'Pablo García Ixmatá -- The communal and the decolonial / Walter Mignolo -- Social sciences and the English language / Renato Ortiz -- Activist intellectuals in a wired world / George Yúdice -- Global realignments and the geopolitics of hispanism / Abril Trigo -- Pluralism, articulation, containment : knowledge politics across the Americas / Bret Gustafson Summary An interdisciplinary tour de force that examines past and present to consider how new forms of knowledge production, epistemic plurality, and intellectual and political movements are bringing sweeping change today Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Intellectuals -- Political activity -- Latin America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General. Intellectual life Intellectuals -- Political activity SUBJECT Latin America -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074908 Subject Latin America Form Electronic book Author Moraña, Mabel Gustafson, Bret Darin, 1968- ISBN 9783954871698 3954871696

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