Excess baggage
Subtitle: a modern theory and the conscious amnesia of Latin Americanist thought
By: Jonathan Pitcher.
Series: American university studies. Series XXII, Latin American literature -- v. 29; American university studies -- v. 29.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781433104404
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Latin America -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-244) and index.
Table of contents: value: A history of unreason; value: Days of Doxa : osmotic and otherwise; value: Canonical suspicions : after Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx; value: Mutatis Mutandis : novel theory; value: Narrative entrapment : Carlos Fuentes' Una familia lejana; value: Secondhand aphasia, or "New" Latin Americanism; value: Borges' Others : betwixt and in-between; value: Canudos revisited.