(Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect - Five Critical Conversations

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs "Latin" and "Hispanic" in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction ; 1 Avatars of Colonial Studies of Latin America in the Home of the Brave: A Conversation with Rolena Adorno; 2 About the Postmodernist Convergence of the Baroque, the Subaltern, and Many Other Signs: A Conversation with John Beverley in the Cathedral of Learning; 3 The Pleasure of Literary Criticism without Attachments to Any Method or Ideology Whatsoever: A Conversation with Roberto González Echevarría; 4 About the Colonial Difference or the Emergence of Thinking That Was Not Considered to Be Thinking: A Conversation with Walter D. Mignolo; 5 Precolombian Legacies and Indigenous Presents in the History of Mexico; Or How to Find Other Possibilities within Constitutive (Post-)Colonial Violence: A Conversation with José Rabasa; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Fernando G Herrero  (PhD Duke University) is currently Visiting Research Scholar at the Instituto de Iberoamérica, University of Salamanca, Spain. He has taught in the United States (Duke University, Stanford University, Pittsburgh University, Oberlin College, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston College, etc.) and the United Kingdom (University of Birmingham, University of Manchester) in the last three decades. He is the author of Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fernando G Herrero, Fernando G Herrero
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781839991622
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-162-2
• Seiten: 388
• Serie: Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Comparative Literature, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary theory, History of the Americas, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino