Thresholds of Illiteracy : Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance / Abraham Acosta.
2014
PQ7081.A1 .A25 2014eb
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Thresholds of Illiteracy : Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance / Abraham Acosta.
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9780823257133
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New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
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©2014
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (292 p.)
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10.1515/9780823257133 doi
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PQ7081.A1 .A25 2014eb
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860.9/98
Summary
Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, that have frequently been deployed to distinguish between modern and archaic peoples and societies.This book is organized as a series of literary and cultural analyses of internationally recognized postcolonial narratives. It tackles a series of the most important political/aesthetic issues in Latin America that have arisen over the past thirty years or so, including indigenism, testimonio, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and migration to the United States via the U.S.-Mexican border.Through a critical examination of the "illiterate" effects and contradictions at work in these resistant narratives, the book goes beyond current theories of culture and politics to reveal radically unpredictable forms of antagonism that advance the possibility for an ever more democratic model of cultural analysis.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Thresholds of Illiteracy, or the Deadlock of Resistance in Latin America
2. Other Perus: Colono Insurrection and the Limits of Indigenista Narrative
3. Secrets Even to Herself: Testimonio, Illiteracy, and the Grammar of Restitution
4. Silence, Subalternity, the EZLN, and the Egalitarian Contingency
5. Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare Life at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Afterword: Illiteracy, Ethnic Studies, and the Lessons of SB1070
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Thresholds of Illiteracy, or the Deadlock of Resistance in Latin America
2. Other Perus: Colono Insurrection and the Limits of Indigenista Narrative
3. Secrets Even to Herself: Testimonio, Illiteracy, and the Grammar of Restitution
4. Silence, Subalternity, the EZLN, and the Egalitarian Contingency
5. Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare Life at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Afterword: Illiteracy, Ethnic Studies, and the Lessons of SB1070
Notes
Works Cited
Index