Latin America and Postmodernity A Contemporary Reader

Name: Latin America and Postmodernity A Contemporary Reader
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ISBN: 9781573929110

ISBN-10: 1573929115

ISBN-13: 9781573929110

Edition: 2001

Authors: Pedro Lange-Churion, Eduardo Mendieta

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Jorge Luis Borges



A New Refutation of Time




Latin American "Postmodernity" as the Perennial Crisis of Hegemonic Perspectives



In Search of the Present




Latin America and the Problem of Modernity




The "World System": Europe as "Center" and Its "Periphery," beyond Eurocentrism




The Challenge of Postmodernity to Latin American Philosophy




Latin America and Postmodernity: Ruptures and Continuties in the Concept of "Our America"




Local Histories/Global Designs: Geohistorical Spaces and Epistemological Locations




The "Postmodern" Apertures in Latin American Alterity: Politics, Spirituality, the Politics of Literature, and Identity Politics



Tiresias's Paradox in the Third Millennium




The Possibility of the Postmodern in the Argentinian Narrative of the Last Military Dictatorship




Neobaroque: Latin America's Postmodernity?




Feminism and Postmodernism




End-of-the-Century Topography Review



Bibliography


Contributors


Index