Books in the Literatura y Cultura series

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical terms, they neither fed into the Cold War-inflected literary prizes that sustained the Boom nor the surge in cultural capital in Latin American cities from which the writers associated with the Crack and McOndo have tended to write. This book seeks to approach the Generation of '72 from the perspective of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, a theoretical framework that lends a fresh and critical architecture to the unique experiences and formal responses of a group of intellectuals that wrote alongside globalization's first wave.

Este libro busca intervenir en el debate sobre formas del pensamiento latinoamericano, mas alla de la historia de las ideas, el poscolonialismo/decolonialismo, y la filosofia de la liberacion. Utiliza la literatura de Jose Revueltas y Roberto Bolano para pensar filosoficamente a America Latina, e interrogar modos de la experiencia ilegibles desde coordenadas liberales y humanistas.

En una interseccion entre lo politico y lo cultural se posicionaron, en el siglo XX, los Partidos Comunistas de America Latina. En ese cruce, numerosos intelectuales y artistas encontraron un sentido de la accion. La biografia intelectual del argentino Hector Agosti recorre esos espacios de politizacion de los actores culturales.

En este libro se realiza un recorrido por la obra del nicaraguense Sergio Ramirez, desde sus textos de inicio, cuentos y ensayos, hasta sus obras publicadas en 2004. Se analiza en ellos su espesura politica y literaria, a la vez que se estudia como incorpora la figura de Ruben Dario, en tanto simbolo cultural popular en Nicaragua.

Examines the textual production of indigenous authorship. The authors start from the nineties and problematize the relationship between Indigenous People and nation-state in Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Brazil. It is one of the book's suggestions that current indigenous movements can be best understood through a critique of textual production of its organic intellectuals.

The essays in this volume explore several fascinating cases of destruction and recovery of archives and libraries and illuminate the ways in which those episodes help shape the writing of historical narratives and the making of collective memories.

Analyses three aspects of the history of the Left and Marxism in Latin America: the need to discuss the "changing times" in the 21 century; the acclimatization of Marxism in Latin America as part of a series of discussions with other intellectual movements; and the construction of certain views on the historical past as a linchpin of the various policy proposals of the left in Latin America.

Read as a whole, the essays in Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI provide a fruitful discussion about the need to revise some of the canonical paradigms in Latin American nineteenth-century studies. Included in the collection are new and thought-provoking essays that attempt to go beyond the dichotomies that have characterized the cultural genealogy of the field.