Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America

For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homogenization of a manifestly diverse continent. Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Twentieth-Century Latin America explores literary and humanist experimentations and questions of gender, race, and ethnicity as well as the contradictions of capitalist development that belie such homogenization by reconfiguring the sense of the real in Latin America.Covering four key geographical areas, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the Andes, every chapter delves into a question that has been central to the humanities in the last 20 years: Indigenous world-views, gender, race, neo-liberalism and visual culture. Legras illuminates these issues with a thorough consideration of the theoretical questions inherent to how new identities disrupt the imaginary stability of social formations.>

Product details

• Authors: Horacio Legrás, Horacio Legras
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9781501392900
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-9290-0
• Pages: 192
• Subjects: Mexico, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Visual Culture, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Latin American Literature, Caribbean, Andes, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Diaspora Studies, Literature: history and criticism, Central America, capitalist development, Identity Formation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous, Neo-Liberalism, indigenous worldviews, ethnicity and race studies, sociopolitical culture, colonialist homogenization