Foucault and Latin America

Appropriations and Deployments of Discursive Analysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-92829-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to trace the influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse, government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin American thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trigo, Benigno

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Benigno Trigo; Part 1: Discourse; 1. The Ordered City From The Lettered City by Angel Rama, translated by John Charles Chasteen; 2. The Lettered City: Power and Writing in Latin America by Román de la Campa; 3. A Clearing in the Jungle: From Santa Mónica to Macondo: From Myth and Archive by Roberto González Echevarría; 4. Bordering on Madness: The Licenciado Vidriera, Guillermo Gómez Peña and the Performance of Liminality by John Ochoa; Part 2: Government; 5. Love and Country: An Allegorical Speculation From Foundational Fictions; The National Romances of Latin America by Doris Sommer; 6. From Liberty to Fatherland; Sacrifice and Dead Certainties in the Critical Discourses of Cuba by Aída Beaupied; 7. Governmentality and the Social Question: National Formation and Discipline by Juan Poblete; 8. Rendering the Invisible Visible and the Visible Invisible: The Colonizing Function of Bailey K. Ashford's Antianemia Campaigns by Fernando Feliú, translated by Maria Elena Cepeda; Part 3: Subjectivity; 9. Thinking Subjectivity in Latin American Criticism by Benigno Trigo; 10. Subjectivity and Olavide's Sentimental Novels by Fernando Unzueta; 11. Author-(dys)function: Re-reading I. Rigoberta Menchu by Elzbieta Sklodowska; Part 4: Sexuality; 12. The Theatrics of Reading: Body and Book in Victoria Ocampo From At Face Value; Autobiography Writing in Spanish America by Sylvia Molloy; 13. One nail Takes Out Another: Power, Gender and Revolution in Julia Alvarez's Novels by Kelly Oliver; 14. Race Woman: Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral by Licia Fiol-Matta; 15. Sadomasochism in Paradiso; Bound Narratives and Pleasure by B. Sifuentes Jáuregui

Über Autor(innen)

Benigno L. Trigo is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America (2000).