Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America

For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homogenization of a manifestly diverse continent.Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Twentieth-Century Latin Americaexplores literary and humanist experimentations and questions of gender, race, and ethnicity as well as the contradictions of capitalist development that belie such homogenization by reconfiguring the sense of the real in Latin America.

Covering four key geographical areas, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the Andes, every chapter delves into a question that has been central to the humanities in the last 20 years: Indigenous world-views, gender, race, neo-liberalism and visual culture. Legrás illuminates these issues with a thorough consideration of the theoretical questions inherent to how new identities disrupt the imaginary stability of social formations.


Author: Horacio Legrás
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 11/03/2022
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781501392948
ISBN10: 1501392948
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Politics
- Literary Criticism | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

About the Author
Horacio Legrás is a Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America (2008) and Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory and the Making of Modern Mexico (2017) and over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals.