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The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis (Latin America Otherwise) by Francine Masiello (editor); Walter D. Mignolo (editor); Irene Silverblatt (editor); Sonia Saldívar-Hull (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__The Art of Transition__ addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to democracy and the formal strategies of wrestling with this change that are found in the aesthetic realm. Masiello views representation as both a political and artistic device, concerned with the tensions between truth and lies, experience and language, and intellectuals and the marginal subjects they study and claim to defend. These often contentious negotiations, she argues, are most provocatively displayed through the spectacle of difference, which constantly crosses the literary stage, the market, and the North/South divide. While forcefully defending the ability of literature and art to advance ethical positions and to foster a critical view of neoliberalism, Masiello especially shows how issues of gender and sexuality function as integrating th

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Author

Francine Masiello (editor); Walter D. Mignolo (editor); Irene Silverblatt (editor); Sonia Saldívar-Hull (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822328063

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Art, Literary Criticism