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This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Reading Otherwise
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Ethics, Politics, Representation
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Ethics and Cultural Studies
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The Limits of Literature
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The Experience of Reading
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Reviews
"The ethical 'turn' in Latin American literary and cultural criticism marked a withdrawal from or renunciation of politics that was generally coincident with the hegemony of neoliberalism. The great value of this collection is that it effects a reversal of this tendency, in a new context marked by the resurgence of the left, or 'lefts,' in Latin America. It seeks to find new ways of conceiving the political from the ethical. That desire, however, marks the collection as a site of conflict and debate - and that, too, is part of its urgency and richness."
- John Beverley, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
"A dynamic collection that will make a lasting contribution to contemporary scholarship, Erin Graff Zivin's The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism is an original and eclectic collaboration - one that hastens the development of conversations between Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies academic enclaves."
- William Anthony Nericcio, Professor and Chair of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
About the authors
ERIN GRAFF ZIVIN is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism
Book Subtitle: Reading Otherwise
Editors: Erin Graff Zivin
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607385
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8496-8Published: 25 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54022-8Published: 25 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60738-5Published: 20 August 2007
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 235
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Latin American Culture