Exhaustion of Difference- PB: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Moreiras, Alberto (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822327244 ISBN-13: 9780822327240 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: ""The Exhaustion of Difference" 'pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.' The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation--and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present " "With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field's epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America."--Nelly Richard, Editor, "Revista de Critica Cultural |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Curricula - History | Latin America - South America |
Dewey: 980.711 |
LCCN: 2001023945 |
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions |
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.8" W x 9.2" (1.28 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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Publisher Description: The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world. |