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Author Franco, Jean, 1924-2022

Title Critical passions : selected essays / Jean Franco ; edited, and with an introduction by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.098 F825C    Check Shelf
Description vi, 536 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Post-contemporary interventions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman -- 1. Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism. Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (1985). Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum (1986). "Manhattan Will Be More Exotic This Fall": The Iconization of Frida Kahlo (1991). Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private (1992). La Malinche: From Gift to Sexual Contract (1992). The Finezas of Sor Juana (1993). From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic (1996). The Mares of the Apocalypse (1996). The Gender Wars (1996) -- 2. Mass and Popular Culture. A Not-So-Romantic Journey: British Travelers to South America, 1818-28 (1979). Narrator, Author, Superstar: Latin American Narrative in the Age of Mass Culture (1981). What's in a Name? Popular Culture Theories and Their Limitations (1982). High-Tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films (1993). What's Left of the Intelligentsia? The Uncertain Future of the Printed Word (1994). Globalization and the Crisis of the Popular (1996). Making Differences, Shifting Boundaries (1994) -- 3. Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond. Reading Vargas Llosa: Conversation Is Not Dialogue (1971). Lezama Lima in the Paradise of Poetry (1974). The Crisis of the Liberal Imagination and the Utopia of Writing (1976-1977). From Modernization to Resistance: Latin American Literature, 1959-1976 (1978). Dependent Industrialization and Onetti's The Shipyard (1980). The Utopia of a Tired Man: Jorge Luis Borges (1981). Self-Destructing Heroines (1984). Satire and the Dialogues of the Dead: Diachronic Discourse in I the Supreme (1986). Pastiche in Contemporary Latin American Literature (1990). Comic Stripping: Cortazar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1997) -- 4. Mexico. Journey to the Land of the Dead: Rulfo's Pedro Paramo (1974). Dominant Ideology and Literature: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1976). Women, Fashion, and the Moralists in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mexico (1984). Waiting for a Bourgeoisie: The Formation of the Mexican Intelligentsia in the Age of Independence (1986). Deluded Women (1996) -- Afterword: The Twilight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995).
Subject Latin America -- Civilization.
Politics and culture -- Latin America.
Women and literature -- Latin America.
Popular culture -- Latin America.
Spanish American literature -- History and criticism.
Added Author Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948-
Newman, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Elizabeth)
ISBN 0822322315 cloth alkaline paper
9780822322313 cloth alkaline paper
082232248X paperback alkaline paper
9780822322481 paperback alkaline paper
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