{"product_id":"the-ends-of-literature-the-latin-american-boom-in-the-neoliberal-marketplace-9780804743457","title":"The Ends of Literature: The Latin American \"Boom\" in the Neoliberal Marketplace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. The \"why?\" of contemporary Latin American literature is the book's overarching concern. Its wide range includes close readings of the prose of Cortázar, Carpentier, Paz, Valenzuela, Piglia, and Las Casas; of the relationship of the \"Boom\" movement and its aftermath; of testimonial narrative; and of contemporary Chilean and Chicano film. The work also investigates in detail various theoretical projects as they intersect with and emerge from Latin American scholarship: cultural studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatin American literature, both as a vehicle of conservatism and as an agent of subversion, is bound from its inception to the rise of the state. Literature's nature, role, and status are therefore altered when the Latin American nation-state succumbs to the process of neoliberalism: as the \"too-strong\" state (dictatorship) yields to the \"too-weak\" state (the market), and as the various practices of civil society and public life are replaced by private or privatized endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHowever, neither the \"end of literature\" nor the \"end of the state\" can be assumed. The end of literature in Latin America is in fact the call for more literature; it is the call of literature, in particular that of the Boom. The end of the state, likewise, is the demand upon this state. The book, then, analyzes the \"ends\" in question as at once their purpose, direction, future, and conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso key to the study is the notion of transition. Within much recent Latin American political discussion \u003ci\u003ela transición\u003c\/i\u003e refers to the passage from dictatorship to democracy, as well as to the failure of this shift, the failure of post-dictatorship. The author argues that the movement from literary to cultural studies, while issuing from intellectual and aesthetic circles, is an integral component of this same transition. The thematization of the bind between these two displacements--hence of Latin America's voyage into \"post-transition\"--forms a fundamental portion of the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brett Levinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804743457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrett Levinson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at SUNY, Binghampton. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima's \"American Expression.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44945285251187,"sku":"9780804743457","price":215.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_de4e4ce0-4545-48b1-a196-baa94bb67637.jpg?v=1778343598","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-ends-of-literature-the-latin-american-boom-in-the-neoliberal-marketplace-9780804743457","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}