The Impure Imagination
Subtitle: Toward A Critical Hybridity In Latin American Writing
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780816647866
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Miscegenation; Hybridity (Social sciences); Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Latin America; National characteristics, Latin American; Books & Reading; Caribbean & Latin American; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Studies - General
Description: "“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 Brazil. Distinguished by its philosophical grounding and underpinned with case studies, The Impure Imagination employs postcolonial theory and theories of race as it explores Latin American history and culture. The result is an original and interrogative study of hybridity that exposes surprising—and unsettling—similarities with nationalistic discourses."--Publisher's description.