TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Acosta, Abraham, 
CN  - PQ7081.A1
DO  - 10.1515/9780823257133
DO  - doi
ID  - 1477635
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
KW  - Latin American literature
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Latin American Studies.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American.
KW  - ) Subalternity (Subaltern Studies).
KW  - Biopolitics.
KW  - Illiteracy.
KW  - Indigenismo.
KW  - Literacy.
KW  - Postcolonialism (Postcolonial Studies).
KW  - Testimonio.
KW  - US/Mexico Border.
KW  - Writing.
KW  - Zapatismo.
KW  - orality.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257133
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9780823257133
T1  - Thresholds of Illiteracy :Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance /
TI  - Thresholds of Illiteracy :Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257133
ER  -