The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America

Published by Duke University Press 1995

The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America

Edited by: John Beverley , Michael Aronna and José Oviedo
With contributions by: Jose Joaquin Brunner , Fernando Calderón and Enrique Dussel

In the series A boundary 2 book

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382683

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Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America.
This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to present a regional variant of the concept than to situate it in a transnational framework. Recognizing that postmodernism in Latin America can only inaccurately be thought of as having traveled from an advanced capitalist "center" to arrive at a still dependent neocolonial "periphery," the contributors share the assumption that postmodernism is itself about the dynamics of interaction between local and metropolitan cultures in a global system in which the center-periphery model has begun to break down. These essays examine the ways in which postmodernism not only designates the effects of this transnationalism in Latin America, but also registers the cultural and political impact on an increasingly simultaneous global culture of a Latin America struggling with its own set of postcolonial contingencies, particularly the crisis of its political left, the dominance of neoliberal economic models, and the new challenges and possibilities opened by democratization.
With new essays on the dynamics of Brazilian culture, the relationship between postmodernism and Latin American feminism, postmodernism and imperialism, and the implications of postmodernist theory for social policy, as well as the text of the Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle of the Zapatatista National Liberation Army, this expanded edition of boundary 2 will interest not only Latin Americanists, but scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern.

Contributors. Xavier Albó, José Joaquín Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel, Néstor García Canclini, Martín Hopenhayn, Neil Larsen, the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group, Norbert Lechner, María Milagros López, Raquel Olea, Aníbal Quijano, Nelly Richard, Carlos Rincón, Silviano Santiago, Beatriz Sarlo, Roberto Schwarz, and Hernán Vidal

Author / Editor information

John Beverley is Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and Communications at the University of Pittsburgh.

José Oviedo is a Ph.D candidate in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Michael Aronna is an Instructor in Spanish at Montclair State College.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Note to This Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction John Beverley and Jose Oviedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Our Identity Starting from Pluralism in the Base Xavier Albó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture Jose Joaquin Brunner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Latin American Identity and Mixed Temporalities; or, How to Be Postmodern and Indian at the Same Time Fernando Calderón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures) Enrique Dussel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
The Hybrid: A Conversation with Margarita Zires, Raymundo Mier, and Mabel Piccini Nestor Garcia Canclini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America Martin Hopenhayn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America Neil Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Founding Statement. Latin American Subaltern Studies Group Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
A Disenchantment Called Postmodernism Norbert Lechner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Postwork Society and Postmodern Subjectivities Maria Milagros López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Feminism: Modern or Postmodern? Raquel Olea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Modernity, Identity, and Utopia in Latin America Anibal Quijano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Cultural Peripheries: Latin America and Postmodernist De-centering Nelly Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
The Peripheral Center of Postmodernism: On Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Alterity Carlos Rincón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Reading and Discursive Intensities: On the Situation of Postmodern Reception in Brazil Silviano Santiago Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Aesthetics and Post-Politics: From Fujimori to the Gulf War Beatriz Sarlo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
National by Imitation Roberto Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Postmodernism, Postleftism, and Neo-Avant-Gardism: The Case of Chile's Revista de Critica Cultural Hernán Vidal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Reply to Vidal (from Chile) Nelly Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle. Zapatista National Liberation Army Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 333

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Published: May 5, 1995
ISBN: 9780822382683