Critical Passions

, by Franco, Jean; Pratt, Mary Louise; Newman, Kathleen E.; Fish, Stanley Eugene

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ISBN: 9780822322481 | 082232248X
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Copyright: 11/1/1999

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"The essays collected in this volume reflect the range, innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have made Jean Franco's work a beacon of light in the study of Latin American culture."--Susan Kirkpatrick, author of "Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain"

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: The Committed Critic

Mary Louise Pratt

Kathleen Newman

Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism

Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (1985)

(9)

Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum (1986)

(21)

``Manhattan Will Be More Exotic This Fall'': The Iconization of Frida Kahlo (1991)

(9)

Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private (1992)

(18)

La Malinche: From Gift to Sexual Contract (1992)

(17)

The Finezas of Sor Juana (1993)

(14)

From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic (1996)

(12)

The Mares of the Apocalypse (1996)

109

(14)

The Gender Wars (1996)

123

(10)

Mass and Popular Culture

A Not-So-Romantic Journey: British Travelers to South America 1818--28 (1979)

133

(14)

Narrator, Author, Superstar: Latin American Narrative in the Age of Mass Culture (1981)

147

(22)

What's in a Name? Popular Culture Theories and Their Limitations (1982)

169

(12)

High-Tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films (1993)

181

(15)

What's Left of the Intelligentsia? The Uncertain Future of the Printed Word (1994)

196

(12)

Globalization and the Crisis of the Popular (1996)

208

(13)

Making Differences, Shifting Boundaries (1994)

221

(12)

Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond

Reading Vargas Llosa: Conversation Is Not Dialogue (1971)

233

(6)

Lezama Lima in the Paradise of Poetry (1974)

239

(20)

The Crisis of the Liberal Imagination and the Utopia of Writing (1976--1977)

259

(26)

From Modernization to Resistance: Latin American Literature, 1959--1976 (1978)

285

(26)

Dependent Industrialization and Onetti's The Shipyard (1980)

311

(16)

The Utopia of a Tired Man: Jorge Luis Borges (1981)

327

(39)

Self-Destructing Heroines (1984)

366

(13)

Satire and the Dialogues of the Dead: Diachronic Discourse in I the Supreme (1986)

379

(14)

Pastiche in Contemporary Latin American Literature (1990)

393

(12)

Comic Stripping: Cortazar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1997)

405

(24)

Mexico

Journey to the Land of the Dead: Rulfo's Pedro Paramo (1974)

429

(18)

Dominant Ideology and Literature: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1976)

447

(14)

Women, Fashion, and the Moralists in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mexico (1984)

461

(15)

Waiting for a Bourgeoisie: The Formation of the Mexican Intelligentsia in the Age of Independence (1986)

476

(17)

Deluded Women (1996)

493

(10)

Afterword: The Twilight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995)

503

(14)

Biographical Note

517

(2)

Index

519

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Critical Passions

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