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Latin Americanism
ISBN: 9780816688968
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Latin American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Criticism -- Historiography;

In this timely book, Romin de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity OC made in the U.S.A.OCO He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin AmericaOCOs own cultural, political, and literary practices, and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction.