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    The Limits of Identity
    Politics and Poetics in Latin America

    Charles Hatfield (Author)

    9781477307298, University of Texas Press

    Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2015

    168 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.286 kg

    "The Limits of Identity . . . masterfully draws from the foundational authors of modern Latin American thought to re-think Latino-Americanism and to suggest a radical departure from the ‘constraints’ of identity politics."
    (Cincinnati Romance Review)
    "[W]ith this project, Hatfield situates himself among some of the most exciting Latin Americanists in the U.S."
    (Latin American Literary Review)
    "[A]n ambitious and systematic effort to dismantle some of the predominant variations of identitarianism that feed the discursive apparatus of Latinamericanism."
    (Berfrois)

    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.

    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Culture
    • Chapter 2: Beliefs
    • Chapter 3: Meaning
    • Chapter 4: Memory
    • Coda: A New Latin Americanism?
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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