Critical Passions : Selected Essays Paperback / softback
by Jean Franco
Edited by Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen M. Newman
Part of the Post-Contemporary Interventions series
Paperback / softback
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Jean Franco's work as a pathbreaking theorist, cultural critic, and scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades.
In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds.
Critical Passions is the first volume to gather a wide-ranging selection of Franco's influential essays. A key participant in the major debates in Latin American studies-beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism-Franco is recognized for her feminist critique of Latin American writing.
While her principal books are all readily available, Franco's several dozen articles are dispersed in a variety of periodicals in Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
Although many of these essays are considered pioneering and classic, they have never before been collected in a single work.
In this volume, Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman have organized the essays into four interrelated sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American literature from the "boom" onward, and the cultural history of Mexico.
As a group, these writings demonstrate Franco's ability to reflect on and judge with equal seriousness all spheres of expression, whether subway graffiti, a fashion manual, or an avant-garde haiku.
A bona fide fan of popular and mass media, Franco never allows her critiques to dissolve into the puritanical or reductive; instead, she finds ways to present and debate complex theoretical questions in direct and accessible language.
This volume will draw an extensive readership in Latin American, cultural, and women's studies.
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- Pages:552 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:29/11/1999
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- ISBN:9780822322481
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:552 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:29/11/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822322481