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Latin Americanism /

"In this timely book, Roman de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and...

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Main Author: De la Campa, Román
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In this timely book, Roman de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America's own cultural, political, and literary practices. De la Campa focuses on the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in U.S. universities and compares this with the "Latin Americanism" of Latin America itself." "By examining the translation of Latin American works into English, the careerism of U.S. intellectuals, the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in English, and the diaspora of Third World intellectuals, de la Campa offers a critique of postmodern and postcolonial constructions as articulated differently in the United States and Latin America. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780816688968