Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen
Newman 1
1 Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism 9
2 Mass and Popular Culture 133
3 Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond 233
4 Mexico 429
Afterword: The Twighlight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism
(1994-1995) 503
Biographical Note 517
Index 519
Jean Franco (1924-2022) was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous books include Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence, and A Literary History of Spain and Spanish.
“A formidable compendium of Franco’s critical thought, attesting to
the evolution of a brilliant avant-garde intellectual who has set
the pace for serious inquiry in the Latin American field as we know
it today. Critical Passions is not simply a tribute to Franco but
an urgent recounting of the progression of a field of study that
she has helped shape.”—Francine Masiello, author of Between
Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in
Modern Argentina
“Pratt and Newman have done the critical readership an immense
service by collecting these far-flung essays by one of our foremost
critics. This learned feminist touches upon issues of history and
identity, of cultural politics and the study of globality, from a
political perspective that remains resolutely focused on social
justice.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of
Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
“The essays collected in this volume reflect the range,
innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have
made Jean Franco’s work a beacon of light in the study of Latin
American culture.”—Susan Kirkpatrick, author of Las Romanticas:
Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain
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