Latin American Literary Criticism
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Today, literary criticism’s biggest fear is to offend. The so-called culture wars have spread the idea that yielding to the “poetics of the minor” makes one right in literary terms. By the same token,...
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If Argentine criticism ever styled itself with a relaxed bitterness, at any time—the Contorno years are the obligatory example—then its defining characteristic in the first two decades of the t...
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When Carlos Monsiváis died in June of 2010, there was a question floating around the Mexican cultural environment, one that would be repeated upon Carlos Fuentes’s death in 2012, almost two years late...
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Along with the historically recycled deaths of the author, literature, and the critic, the demise of literary interpretation naturally has played a major role in those frequently apocalyptic perceptio...