Reading North by South: on Latin American literature, culture, and politics

Part 1 Occupation texts: teaching Caribbean texts - outline for a counterhegemonizing pedagogy people without history - central America in the literary imagination of the metropolis. Part 2 Sui generis: narrating the trujillato Boom novel and the Cold War in Latin Part 3 Uncivil society: sport as civil society - Argentina's generals play championship soccer hegemony or idelogy? observations on Brazilian fascism and the criticism of Roberto Schwarz. Part 4 Recolonizations: aesthetics and the question of colonial discourse phenomenology and colony - Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America. part 5 Culture and nation: split nationalities indigenism, cultural nationalism, and the problem of universality nation and narratin in Latin America - critical reflections. Part 6 Postmodernity: latin America and postmodernism - a brief theoretical inquiry postmodernism and imperialism - theory and politics in Latin Part 7 Cultural studies: the cultural studies movement and Latin America - an overview transcultural/subpolitical - pitfalls of hybridity Brazilian critical theory and the question of cultural studies.