Decline and Fall of the Lettered City Latin America in the Cold War

Name: Decline and Fall of the Lettered City Latin America in the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780674008427

ISBN-10: 0674008421

ISBN-13: 9780674008427

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jean Franco, Arnold C. Franco

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This volume charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Jean Franco is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.



Introduction



Conflicting Universals



Killing Them Softly: The Cold War and Culture



Communist Manifestos



Liberated Territories



Peripheral Fantasies



Antistates



The Black Angel of Lost Time



The Magic of Alterity



A Cultural Revolution



Cultural Revolutions: Trouble in the City



The Seduction of Margins



Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization



Obstinate Memory: Tainted History



Inside the Empire


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index