Critical Passions - Selected Essays

"The essays collected in this volume reflect the range, innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have made Jean Franco's work a beacon of light in the study of Latin American culture."--Susan Kirkpatrick, author of "Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain"

List of contents

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

About the author

Jean Franco

Product details

• Authors: Jean Franco
• Assisted by: Kathleen M Newman (Editor), Kathleen M. Newman (Editor), Mary Louise Pratt (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.1999
• EAN: 9780822322481
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2248-1
• No. of pages: 552
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 925 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American