The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Reading Otherwise

   1. Introduction: Reading Otherwise

      • Erin Graff Zivin

      Pages 1-7

3. Ethics, Politics, Representation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Ethical Superstition

      • Bruno Bosteels

      Pages 11-23

   3. Ethics, Perhaps

      • Gabriela Basterra

      Pages 25-41

4. Ethics and Cultural Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Ethics and Citizenship in the Blogosphere: Academics Meet New Technologies of Online Publication

      • Idelber Avelar

      Pages 45-62

   3. Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil

      • Esther Gabara

      Pages 63-102

5. The Limits of Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. A Few Notes on Constructed Worlds: The Contradictory Legacy of Past Decades

      • Sergio Chejfec

      Pages 105-114

   3. Saying The Unsayable: Saer, or For an Ethics of Writing

      • Gabriel Riera

      Pages 115-146

   4. Infrapolitics and the Thriller: A Prolegomenon to Every Possible Form of Antimoralist Literary Criticism. On HÉctor Aguilar CamÍn’s La Guerra De Galio and Morir En El Golfo

      • Alberto Moreiras

      Pages 147-179

6. The Experience of Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Ethical Asymmetries: Learning to Love a Loss

      • Doris Sommer

      Pages 183-200

   3. Reading for the People and Getting There First

      • Francine Masiello

      Pages 201-216

7. Back Matter

   Pages 217-234

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This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.

• America
• Amerikanische Literatur
• Cultural Studies
• culture
• gender

"The ethical 'turn' in Latin American literary and cultural criticism marked a withdrawal from or renunciation of politics that was generally coincident with the hegemony of neoliberalism. The great value of this collection is that it effects a reversal of this tendency, in a new context marked by the resurgence of the left, or 'lefts,' in Latin America. It seeks to find new ways of conceiving the political from the ethical. That desire, however, marks the collection as a site of conflict and debate - and that, too, is part of its urgency and richness."

- John Beverley, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh

"A dynamic collection that will make a lasting contribution to contemporary scholarship, Erin Graff Zivin's The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism is an original and eclectic collaboration - one that hastens the development of conversations between Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies academic enclaves."

- William Anthony Nericcio, Professor and Chair of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University

ERIN GRAFF ZIVIN is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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