Author: Levinson, Brett
Title: The Ends of Literature : The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 208 pp. Minor rubbing. First two page's corners creased. VG. ¶ Contents: The Ends of Literature as Neoliberal Act: An Opening; Social Movements & the Literary: A Postdictartorship Parable of a Political Ontology; Trans(re)lations: Disaster & "Literary Politics" (Reading Piuglia's 'Respiración Artificial'); Toward a Psychoanalysis of Culture: Sex, Nation, & the Praxis of the Liminal in 'American Me' & 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'; The Lost Steps of the Pedagogy of Postcolonial Studies: Otherness & Truth; The Imperialist Unconscious: Spanish Colonialism / the End of (the) Discovery; 'I, Rigoberta Menchú' as Allegory of Death; The Bind Between Deconstruction & Subalternity, or, the Latin Americanist Nation.

Keywords: Latin American Literature, Literary Sociology, Criticism, South America, Neoliberalism, Critical, Social Theory, ,