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Una coleccion de ensayos escogidos del critico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonia, y conflicto social. Abarca el periodo que va desde los ochenta del siglo pasado hasta hoy. Los temas incluyen el barroco colonial y su fuerza hegemonica en la cultura latinoamericana, el testimonio como genero emergente, la literatura militante, el postmodernismo, la relacion entre crit...

An old lady and a dog are hanging in a tree. Suicide pact, Steven decides. But he turns away, it's only polite. After all, he's the guy who abandoned Friends Acting Strangely as they headed for the Charts.On a winter's day a gypsy passing through the village recognises Feb. Her horse doesn't. That's not surprising, Feb's no idea who she was once meant to be.Steven helps her. Because she's a girl. And a scientist. It'll be a cinch, there'll be ...

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The Failure of Latin Americais a collection of John Beverley's previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of postcolonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism. Beverley sees an impasse within both the academic postcolonial project and the Bolivarian idea of Latin America. The Pink Tide may have failed to permanently reshape Latin America, but in its failure there rema...

Excerpt from The Trial of William Frend, M.A., And Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court: For Writing and Publishing a Pamphlet, Intitled Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-RepublicansMr. Frend was accordingly fummoned to appear in the vice-chancellor's Court, to be held in the law-schools.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

From Cuba' expands upon and challenges the traditional ways in which scholars think about Cuba's political past and future prospects.

This study attempts to answer the question: Is there not a way of thinking about literature that is "outside" or "against" it? Beverley argues for a negation of the literary that would allow non-literary forms of cultural practice to displace literature's hegemony.

A discussion of current debates in cultural and subaltern studies, with a particular focus on Latin America, that offers the possibility of constituting new political practices.

John Beverley is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory and co-editor of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.

Proposes new paradigms more suited to Latin America's reconfigured political landscape

A discussion of current debates in cultural and subaltern studies, with a particular focus on Latin America, that offers the possibility of constituting new political practices.

Excerpt from The Trial of William Frend, M.A., And Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court: For Writing and Publishing a Pamphlet, Intitled Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans In consequence of these applications, the Vice-Chancellor on the fourth of March, desired all the above gentlemen to attend him at his Lodge, where he informed them, that, being called upon ...

The continuing importance of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American culture.