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The exhaustion of difference : the politics of Latin American cultural studies /

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in trans-national 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, post-Marxist theory, philosophy, political...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moreiras, Alberto
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conditions of Latin Americanist critique
  • Global fragments
  • Negative globality and critical regionalism
  • Theoretical fictions and fatal conceits
  • Restitution and appropriation
  • The national popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges
  • The end of magical realism: José María Arguedas's passionate signifier
  • The aura of testimonio
  • The order of order: on the reluctant culturalism of anti-subalternist critiques
  • Hybridity and double consciousness.