Critical Passions - Selected Essays

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

A key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Franco, Jean Franco, JEAN FRANCO
• Mitarbeit: Kathleen M Newman (Herausgeber), Kathleen M. Newman (Herausgeber), Mary Louise Pratt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.11.1999
• EAN: 9780822322313
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2231-3
• Seiten: 552
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 239 mm x 38 mm
• Gewicht: 1111 g
• Serien: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Anthropologie, Spanisch, Mexiko, Südamerika, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Soziale und ethische Themen