Can I read The Postmodernism Debate In Latin America (a Boundary 2 Book) on EtoBox?

The Postmodernism Debate In Latin America (a Boundary 2 Book) by John Beverley; Michael Aronna; José Oviedo is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Postmodernism Debate In Latin America (a Boundary 2 Book) about?

Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America.This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to present a regional variant of the concept than to situate it in a transnational framework. Recognizing that postmodernism in Latin America can only inaccurately be thought of as having traveled from an advanced capitalist'center'to arrive at a still dependent neocolonial'periphery,'the contributors share the assumption that postmodernism is itself about the dynamics of interaction between local and metropolitan cultures in a global system in which the center-periphery model has begun to break down. These essays examine the ways in which postmodernism not only designates the effects of this transnationalism in Latin America, but also registers the cultural and political impact on an increasingly simultaneous global culture of a Latin America struggling with its own set of postcolonial contin

Author

John Beverley; Michael Aronna; José Oviedo

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822382683

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History