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A compilation of essays exploring regionalism in Latin America which seek to fill historical gaps created by the reading of Latin American literature either through a totalizing view of a globalized culture or through universal formulae for reading offere
List of contents
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America / Doris Sommer
The Corpus Delicti / Josefina Ludmer
Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile / Mary Louise Pratt
The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis / Roberto Schwarz
Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism / Walter D. Mignolo
The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the
Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / José Antonio Mazzotti
The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections / Mary M. Gaylord
The Burden of Modernity / Carlos J. Alonso
Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the
Autonomista Tradition / Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones
Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of Simón Rodríguez / Susana Rotker
Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's
Fin de Siglo / Francine Masiello
Italian Opera in Early National Mexico / Nancy Vogeley
The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) / John Beverley
Reading Loose Women Reading / Debra A. Castillo
"Damnable Iteration": The Traps of Political Spectacle / Diana Taylor
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project / Antonio Benítez-Rojo
Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael
Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States:
Caballero, a Late Border Romance / José E. Limón
The Repose of Heroes / Julio Ramos
His America, Our America: José Martí Reads Whitman / Sylvia Molloy
Broken English Memories / Juan Flores
About the author
Doris Sommer, ed.
Summary
Attempts to reground literary criticism in the particularities of history so as to probe those gaps created by reading Latin American literature through either the lenses of a totalising view of a globalised culture or through universal formulae for reading offered by metanarratives.
