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Critical passions : selected essays

Author: Jean Franco; Mary Louise Pratt; Kathleen E Newman
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions.
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Franco, Jean.
Critical passions.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607393963
Online version:
Franco, Jean.
Critical passions.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607808722
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Franco; Mary Louise Pratt; Kathleen E Newman
ISBN: 0822322315 9780822322313 082232248X 9780822322481
OCLC Number: 39216915
Description: vi, 536 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen Newman --
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) --
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) --
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).
Series Title: Post-contemporary interventions.
Responsibility: Jean Franco ; edited, and with an introduction by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman.

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