Subalternity and Representation - Arguments in Cultural Theory

"An excellent, compelling overview and "mise en question" of subaltern studies. At once clear and conceptually sophisticated, this book engagingly rehearses many of the basic issues, texts and problems of the field but is in no way derivative. It is an intelligent, thorough, thoughtful 'reading' of an increasingly important area of study."-- Brad Epps, Harvard University

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge 25

2 Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered CIty" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion 41

3 Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency 65

4 Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of "the people" in Subaltern and Cultural Studies 85

5 Civil Society, Hybridity, and the " ' Political' Aspect of Cultural Studies" (on Canclini) 115

6 Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation 133

Notes 169

Index 195

Info autore

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the coauthor of Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions, author of Against Literature and Una Modernidad Obsoleta: Estudios sobre el Barroco, and coeditor of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Beverley
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.12.1999
• EAN: 9780822324164
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2416-4
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 233 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 363 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Soziologie, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies