Description
| Product ID: | 9781403984968 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
| Title: | The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism |
| Subtitle: | Reading Otherwise |
| Authors: | Author: E. Zivin |
| Page Count: | 235 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 - |
| Description: | This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies. The last several decades have witnessed a reorientation of the political and a globalization of the cultural in Latin America, shifting literature''s function as a homogenizing, citizen-forming institution to a more dispersed, fragmented, and (potentially) democratic and liberating practice. At the same time, and perhaps in response to this cultural shift, the field of Latin American literary studies has expanded to include cultural studies, postcolonial theory, performance studies, gender studies, Africana studies, and subaltern studies, at once expanding and disrupting the boundaries of literature, criticism, and of Latin America itself. In light of these dramatic transformations within a globalized Latin American culture, as well as within the field of Latin American literary studies itself, what value can we attribute to aesthetics today? Is a reconsideration of artistic creation a mere return to the hegemonic lettered city described by Angel Rama? Or can we begin to think about an "ethical potential" inscribed within the act of reading, that is, an encounter with otherness that irreversibly alters the reading subject? |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-09-25 |
