The Limits of Identity : Politics and Poetics in Latin America (Border Hispanisms)

Hatfield, Charles

University of Texas Press（2015/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781477307298
• DDC分類 980

Full Description

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.

Contents

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