The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

Francine Masiello

Published by Duke University Press 2001

The Art of Transition

Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

Francine Masiello
Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo , Irene Silverblatt and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381389

Overview
Contents

About this book

Addresses the problems defined by practitioners of literary and visual culture in the post-dictatorship years in Chile and Argentina.

Author / Editor information

Francine Masiello is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina.

Reviews

“The Art of Transition will be indispensable reading for literary critics working on contemporary Latin America. Though it focuses on Argentina and Chile, the questions it poses are of concern to anyone who cares about literature and art in the neoliberal era. Masiello tacks smoothly among a diverse gallery of figures, lining them up around a rich and often brilliant array of insights.”—Mary Louise Pratt, Stanford University

“Two centuries ago, Villemain described literature as an expression of society; one century later Benedetto Croce replied that what really counts is that literature is always expression. Proving both right, Francine Masiello has written a much-needed book that brings back the aesthetic dimension to a study of current Spanish American literary production grounded on her exceptionally insightful understanding of the current turn in the history of the region.”—Tulio Halperín-Donghi, author of The Contemporary History of Latin America

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
ABOUT THE SERIES Publicly Available Download PDF	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I . MASKS
1. In Search of a Subject: Latin American Intellectuals at Century’s End Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. The Spectacle of ‘‘Difference’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
PART II . MAPS
3. Gender Traffic on the North/South Horizon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
4. Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
PART III . MARKETS
5. The Politics of the Text: Experience, Representation, and the Return of lo popular Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
6. From Museum to Street: Poetry for the New Millennium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 349
Illustrations
- Other: 10 b&w photos

eBook

Published: September 21, 2001
ISBN: 9780822381389