Beverley Latinamericanism after 9/11

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9468-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Post-contemporary interventions

Argues that post-9/11 is a new period for Latin America that portends increasing confrontation with North America and hence requires a new form of Latin Americanism capable of confronting U.S. hegemony and expressing an alternative future for Latin Americ

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beverley, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

1. Latinamericanism after 9/11 17

2. The Persistence of the Nation (against Empire) 26

3. Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos Alberto Moreiras's The Exhaustion of Difference) 43

4. Between Ariel and Caliban: On the Politics of Location of Latinamericanism and the Question of Solidarity 60

5. The Neoconservative Turn 72

6. Beyond the Paradigm of Disillusion: Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America 95

7. The Subaltern and the State 110

Notes 127

Bibliography 145

Index 155

Über Autor(innen)

John Beverley is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory and co-editor of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.