Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America

Horacio Legrás

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781501392900
• eBook ISBN: 9781501392931
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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 America explores 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 The Nativist Avant-Garde
• Chapter 2 Miguel Angel Asturias: The Science of Literature
• Chapter 3 Seeing Women Photographed in Revolutionary Mexico
• Chapter 4 Dialectic of Diasporic Consciousness: The Afro-Cuban Voice and the Hypostasis of Meaning
• Chapter 5 José María Arguedas: Capitalist Accumulation and Novelistic Mode of Presentation in the Andes
• Chapter 6 Psychotic Violence: Crime and Consumption in the Apocalyptic Phase of Capital
• Works Cited
• Index
• Copyright Page