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Author Franco, Jean, 1924-2022

Title The decline and fall of the lettered city : Latin America in the Cold War / Jean Franco.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  860.9 F825D    Check Shelf
Description viii, 341 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Convergences
Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- I : Conflicting universals -- Killing them softly : the Cold War and culture ; Communist manifestos ; Liberated territories -- II : Peripheral fantasies -- Antistates ; Black angel of lost time ; Magic of alterity -- III : Cultural revolution -- Cultural revolutions : trouble in the city ; Seduction of margins ; Bodies in distress : narratives of globalization ; Obstinate memory : tainted history ; Inside the empire.
Subject Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- Latin America.
Latin America -- Civilization -- 1948-
ISBN 0674007522 cloth
9780674007529 cloth
0674008421 paper
9780674008427 paper
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