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The Limits of Identity : Politics and Poetics in Latin America / Charles Hatfield.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Border HispanismsPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477305447
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 980 23
LOC classification:
  • F1414.3 .H38 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Culture -- CHAPTER TWO Beliefs -- CHAPTER THREE Meaning -- CHAPTER FOUR Memory -- CODA A New Latin Americanism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Culture -- CHAPTER TWO Beliefs -- CHAPTER THREE Meaning -- CHAPTER FOUR Memory -- CODA A New Latin Americanism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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