Seize Your Copy The Decline And Fall Of The Lettered City: Latin America In The Cold War Fashioned By Jean Franco Distributed In Booklet

this for a book review, Great overview of works of literature and culture throughout Latin America from the Cold War era to the era of neoliberalism.
Particularly I like the argument that when art is relegated to the market economy and seen as simple entertainment rather than critical works which engage with human experience its so detrimental to the arts.
Un estudio que se lee de maravilla, porque se aleja del tono manual para desarrollar un recorrido coherente y completo.
Muy buena lectura. The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of valuesartistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation strugglesand at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher.
The projects of the historic avantgarde were revitalized by an anticapitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state.
The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avantgarde and political vanguard.
This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed.
In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map.


A longawaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society.
Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and

histories of highly polarized struggle, Focusing on literary texts by Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving.
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