Beverley / Fish / Jameson Subalternity and Representation

Arguments in Cultural Theory
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8219-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 221 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A discussion of current debates in cultural and subaltern studies, with a particular focus on Latin America, that offers the possibility of constituting new political practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beverley, John

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge 2 Transculturation and Subalternity: The “Lettered City” and the Túpac Amaru Rebellion 3 Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchú, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency 4 Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of “the People” in Subaltern and Cultural Studies 5 Civil Society, Hybridity, and the “ ‘Political’ Aspect of Cultural Studies” (on Canclini) 6 Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the coauthor of Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions, author of Against Literature and Una Modernidad Obsoleta: Estudios sobre el Barroco, and coeditor of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America.