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<p><i>Postmodernity in Latin America</i> contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism.<br> Focusing on literature, Colás uses Julio Cortázar’s <i>Hopscotch</i> to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig’s <i>Kiss of the Spider Woman</i> to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia’s <i>Artificial R

Author

Santiago Colás, Santiago Colás

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822315087

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Literary Criticism