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Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory » (1st Edition)

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Authors: John Beverley, Stanley Fish (Editor), Fredric Jameson
ISBN-13: 9780822324164, ISBN-10: 0822324164
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: John Beverley

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the coauthor of Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions, author of Against Literature and Una Modernidad Obsoleta: Estudios sobre el Barroco, and coeditor of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America.

Book Synopsis

A discussion of current debates in cultural and subaltern studies, with a particular focus on Latin America, that offers the possibility of constituting new political practices.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge25
2Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered City" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion41
3Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority and the Problem of Subaltern Agency65
4Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of "the People" in Subaltern and Cultural Studies85
5Civil Society, Hybridity, and the "'Political' Aspect of Cultural Studies" (on Canclini)115
6Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation133
Notes169
Index195

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