The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America - Couverture souple

Hatfield, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147730729X ISBN 13 : 9781477307298

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CHARLES HATFIELD is an associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147730729X
• ISBN 13: 9781477307298
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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