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Critical Passions: Selected Essays »

Authors: Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt (Editor), Kathleen M. Newman (Editor), Stanley Fish (Editor), Fredric Jameson
ISBN-13: 9780822322313, ISBN-10: 0822322315
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jean Franco

Jean Franco is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous books include Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence, and A Literary History of Spain and Spanish.

Book Synopsis

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Committed Critic	1
1	Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism
	Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (1985)	9
	Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum (1986)	18
	"Manhattan Will Be More Exotic This Fall": The Iconization of Frida Kahlo (1991)	39
	Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private (1992)	48
	La Malinche: From Gift to Sexual Contract (1992)	66
	The Finezas of Sor Juana (1993)	83
	From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic (1996)	97
	The Mares of the Apocalypse (1996)	109
	The Gender Wars (1996)	123
2	Mass and Popular Culture
	A Not-So-Romantic Journey: British Travelers to South America, 1818-28 (1979)	133
	Narrator, Author, Superstar: Latin American Narrative in the Age of Mass Culture (1981)	147
	What's in a Name? Popular Culture Theories and Their Limitations (1982)	169
	High-Tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films (1993)	181
	What's Left of the Intelligentsia? The Uncertain Future of the Printed Word (1994)	196
	Globalization and the Crisis of the Popular (1996)	208
	Making Differences, Shifting Boundaries (1994)	221
3	Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond
	Reading Vargas Llosa: Conversation Is Not Dialogue (1971)	233
	Lezama Lima in the Paradise of Poetry (1974)	239
	The Crisis of the Liberal Imagination and the Utopia of Writing (1976-1977)	259
	From Modernization to Resistance: Latin American Literature, 1959-1976 (1978)	285
	Dependent Industrialization and Onetti's The Shipyard (1980)	311
	The Utopia of a Tired Man: Jorge Luis Borges (1981)	327
	Self-Destructing Heroines (1984)	366
	Satire and the Dialogues of the Dead: Diachronic Discourse in I the Supreme (1986)	379
	Pastiche in Contemporary Latin American Literature (1990)	393
	Comic Stripping: Cortazar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1997)	405
4	Mexico
	Journey to the Land of the Dead: Rulfo's Pedro Paramo (1974)	429
	Dominant Ideology and Literature: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1976)	447
	Women, Fashion, and the Moralists in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mexico (1984)	461
	Waiting for a Bourgeoisie: The Formation of the Mexican Intelligentsia in the Age of Independence (1986)	476
	Deluded Women (1996)	493
	Afterword: The Twilight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995)	503
	Biographical Note	517
	Index	519