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The Impure Imagination: Toward A Critical Hybridity In Latin American Writing
Joshua Lund
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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
“Hybridity” is a term that has been applied to Latin American politics, literature, and intellectual life for more than a century. During the past two decades, it has figured in—and been transfigured by—the work of prominent postcolonialist writers and thinkers throughout the Americas.
In this pathbreaking work, Joshua Lund offers a thoughtful critique of hybridity by reading contemporary theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. The Impure Imagination is the first book to systematically analyze today’s dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a particular focus on Mexico and ... Read more
“Hybridity” is a term that has been applied to Latin American politics, literature, and intellectual life for more than a century. During the past two decades, it has figured in—and been transfigured by—the work of prominent postcolonialist writers and thinkers throughout the Americas.
In this pathbreaking work, Joshua Lund offers a thoughtful critique of hybridity by reading contemporary theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. The Impure Imagination is the first book to systematically analyze today’s dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a particular focus on Mexico and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647859
SKU
V9780816647859
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About Joshua Lund
Joshua Lund is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh. His essays have appeared in A Contracorriente, Race & Class, Cultural Critique, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
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