{"product_id":"postmodernity-in-latin-america-the-argentine-paradigm-paperback","title":"Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSantiago Colás\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostmodernity in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism. \u003cbr\u003eFocusing on literature, Colás uses Julio Cortázar's \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig's \u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/i\u003e to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia's \u003ci\u003eArtificial Respiration\u003c\/i\u003e to exemplify the cultural coordinates of postmodernity in Argentina. Informed by the cycle of political transformation beginning with the Cuban Revolution, including its effects on Peronism, to the period of dictatorship, and finally to redemocratization, Colás's examination of this literary progression leads to the reconstruction of three significant moments in the history of Argentina. His analysis provokes both a revised understanding of that history and the recognition that multiple meanings of postmodernity must be understood in ways that incorporate the complexity of regional differences. \u003cbr\u003eOffering a new voice in the debate over postmodernity, one that challenges that debate's leading thinkers, \u003ci\u003ePostmodernity in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to students of Latin American literature and to scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eColas dares enter the postmodernism debate and ably takes on its leading thinkers. Not only literary critics and theoreticians, but historians, political scientists, and sociologists, too, will have to cite this study as an informed and solidly grounded foray into their respective disciplines.--Jonathan Tittler, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSantiago Colás is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.01 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722459746367,"sku":"9780822315209","price":62.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d3d6254983be92b0987c2bf077d529d6.webp?v=1765095839","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/postmodernity-in-latin-america-the-argentine-paradigm-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}