The decline and fall of the lettered city : Latin America in the Cold War / Jean Franco.

The decline and fall of the lettered city : Latin America in the Cold War /

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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Main Author: Franco, Jean, 1924-2022
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Series:Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects:
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Latin America.
Latin America > Civilization > 1948-
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I : Conflicting universals
  • Killing them softly : the Cold War and culture ; Communist manifestos ; Liberated territories
  • II : Peripheral fantasies
  • Antistates ; Black angel of lost time ; Magic of alterity
  • III : Cultural revolution
  • Cultural revolutions : trouble in the city ; Seduction of margins ; Bodies in distress : narratives of globalization ; Obstinate memory : tainted history ; Inside the empire.

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