Introduction I. Conflicting Universals 1. Killing Them Softly: the Cold War and Culture 2. Communist Manifestoes 3. Liberated Territories II. Peripheral Fantasies 4. Anti-States 5. The Black Angel of Time 6. The Magic of Alterity III. A Cultural Revolution 7. Cultural Revolutions 8. The Seduction of Margins 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History 11. Inside the Empire Notes Index
With seemingly effortless grace, Jean Franco teaches us to reread Latin America, showing the roots of 'global' cultural politics in the Cold War. The range is from hard politics to transvestite disidentifications; interspersed with lapidary textual reading and unfailingly innovative theoretical interventions. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason With seemingly effortless grace, Jean Franco teaches us to reread Latin America, showing the roots of 'global' cultural politics in the Cold War. The range is from hard politics to transvestite disidentifications; interspersed with lapidary textual reading and unfailingly innovative theoretical interventions. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason 20020501
Jean Franco is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.
Books that are so well crafted and so original that they make a
difference in the evolution of a discipline do not come out often.
This book by Franco, longtime literary and cultural observer of
Latin America and professor emerita of Columbia University, is one
such work...This book provides a unique understanding of both the
literature and the politics of this important period in Latin
American history.
*Library Journal*
With seemingly effortless grace, Jean Franco teaches us to reread
Latin America, showing the roots of 'global' cultural politics in
the Cold War. The range is from hard politics to transvestite
disidentifications; interspersed with lapidary textual reading and
unfailingly innovative theoretical interventions.
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial
Reason*
With seemingly effortless grace, Jean Franco teaches us to reread
Latin America, showing the roots of 'global' cultural politics in
the Cold War. The range is from hard politics to transvestite
disidentifications; interspersed with lapidary textual reading and
unfailingly innovative theoretical interventions.
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of
Postcolonial Reason*
In this impressive study, Franco...tracks the collapse of the
belief in utopia among Latin American writers from the Cold War to
neoliberalism...Franco raises crucial questions in her fascinating
exploration of the decline and vestiges of the lettered city.
Essential reading for Latin Americanists and anyone interested in
modern intellectual life.
*Choice*
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