The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City : : Latin America in the Cold War / / Jean Franco.
The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Convergences: Inventories of the Present
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Conflicting Universals
- 1. Killing Them Softly: The ColdWar and Culture
- 2. Communist Manifestos
- 3. Liberated Territories
- II. Peripheral Fantasies
- 4. Antistates
- 5. The Black Angel of Lost Time
- 6. The Magic of Alterity
- III. A Cultural Revolution
- 7. Cultural Revolutions: Trouble in the City
- 8. The Seduction of Margins
- 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization
- 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History
- 11. Inside the Empire
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index