The Limits of Identity : : Politics and Poetics in Latin America / / Charles Hatfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Hatfield, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Border Hispanisms
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Other title: Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE Culture --; CHAPTER TWO Beliefs --; CHAPTER THREE Meaning --; CHAPTER FOUR Memory --; CODA A New Latin Americanism? --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477305447; 9783110745337
• DOI: 10.7560/305430
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Hatfield.

The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.