{"product_id":"the-exhaustion-of-difference-the-politics-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-hardback-9780822327264","title":"The Exhaustion of Difference; The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (Hardback) 9780822327264","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlberto Moreiras (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822327264\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 September 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 17.6 x 3.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies\/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation-and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.”-Nelly Richard, Editor, \u003ci\u003eRevista de CrÍtica Cultural\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In \u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003eWhat, asks Moreiras, is the function of critical reason in the present moment? What is regionalistic knowledge in the face of globalization? Can regionalistic knowledge be an effective tool for a critique of contemporary reason? What is the specificity of Latin Americanist reflection and how is it situated to deal with these questions? Through examinations of critical regionalism, restitutional excess, the historical genealogy of Latin American subalternism, \u003ci\u003etestimonio\u003c\/i\u003e literature, and the cultural politics of magical realism, Moreiras argues that while cultural studies is increasingly institutionalized and in danger of reproducing the dominant ideologies of late capitalism, it is also ripe for giving way to projects of theoretical reformulation. Ultimately, he claims, critical reason must abandon its allegiance to aesthetic-historicist projects and the destructive binaries upon which all cultural theories of modernity have been constructed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to the rethinking of Latin American cultural studies. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique \u003cbr\u003e 1. Global Fragments\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Restitution and Appropriation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Aura of Testimonio\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574568972568,"sku":"9780822327264","price":93.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-exhaustion-of-difference-the-politics-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-hardback-9780822327264","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}