{"product_id":"exhaustion-of-difference-pb-the-politics-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-paperback","title":"Exhaustion of Difference- PB: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlberto Moreiras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In \u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\tWhat, asks Moreiras, is the function of critical reason in the present moment? What is regionalistic knowledge in the face of globalization? Can regionalistic knowledge be an effective tool for a critique of contemporary reason? What is the specificity of Latin Americanist reflection and how is it situated to deal with these questions? Through examinations of critical regionalism, restitutional excess, the historical genealogy of Latin American subalternism, \u003ci\u003etestimonio\u003c\/i\u003e literature, and the cultural politics of magical realism, Moreiras argues that while cultural studies is increasingly institutionalized and in danger of reproducing the dominant ideologies of late capitalism, it is also ripe for giving way to projects of theoretical reformulation. Ultimately, he claims, critical reason must abandon its allegiance to aesthetic-historicist projects and the destructive binaries upon which all cultural theories of modernity have been constructed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\tThe Exhaustion of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to the rethinking of Latin American cultural studies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field's epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.--Nelly Richard, Editor, \"Revista de Critica Cultural\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. He is also coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Spanish Cultural Studies \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecoeditor of \u003ci\u003eNepantla: Views from South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 9.2 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130245353607,"sku":"9780822327240","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b99f738c2e8306b339953062e3831727.webp?v=1732609516","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/exhaustion-of-difference-pb-the-politics-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}