The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture (Latin America in Translation)
They are a living illustration of his incisive hypotheses on the unstable, almost untenable and ultimately universal position of the Latin American intellectual as witness and protagonist of the uneven, unequal and erratic processes of cultural modernization. This translation is timely given the spate of criticism on globalization, nationalism, and postcolonialism, and it is especially thought-provoking for comparatists who are moving beyond traditional European literary study into more transcultural perspectives.
The space in-between : essays on Latin American culture
A remarkable series of insights. Another in Duke University's excellent series of Latin America in Translation, it provides English-language readers with eleven essays by Silviano Santiago from the s and s. Santiago knowingly and incisively brings theoretical issues to bear on French, U. Marting, Latin American Research Review.
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Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item.
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Literature and society -- Latin America. Linked Data More info about Linked Data. Home About Help Search. He examines the pedagogical and modernizing mission of Western voyagers from the conquistadors to the present. Santiago also confronts questions of cultural dependency and analyzes the problems involved in the imposition of an alien European history, the cultural displacements experienced by the Indians through their religious conversion, and the hierarchical suppression of native and Afro-Brazilian values. Elegantly written and translated, The Space In-Between will provide insights and perspectives that will interest cultural and literary theorists, postcolonial scholars, and other students of contemporary culture.
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