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
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.
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.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge | 25 |
2 | Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered City" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion | 41 |
3 | Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority and the Problem of Subaltern Agency | 65 |
4 | Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of "the People" in Subaltern and Cultural Studies | 85 |
5 | Civil Society, Hybridity, and the "'Political' Aspect of Cultural Studies" (on Canclini) | 115 |
6 | Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation | 133 |
Notes | 169 | |
Index | 195 |