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The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism

Reading Otherwise

Herausgegeben: Zivin, E.

Beschreibung

This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.

Autor

ERIN GRAFF ZIVIN is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-54022-8
• 1st ed. 2007
• Seitenzahl: 235
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781349540228
• ISBN-10: 1349540226
• Artikelnr.: 45079683

Rezensionen

"The ethical 'turn' in Latin American literary and cultural criticism marked a withdrawal from or renunciation of politics that was generally coincident with the hegemony of neoliberalism. The great value of this collection is that it effects a reversal of this tendency, in a new context marked by the resurgence of the left, or 'lefts,' in Latin America. It seeks to find new ways of conceiving the political from the ethical. That desire, however, marks the collection as a site of conflict and debate - and that, too, is part of its urgency and richness."

- John Beverley, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh

"A dynamic collection that will make a lasting contribution to contemporary scholarship, Erin Graff Zivin's The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism is an original and eclectic collaboration - one that hastens the development of conversations between Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies academic enclaves."

- William Anthony Nericcio, Professor and Chair of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University