The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise PDF
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NEWCONCEPTSINLATINOAMERICANCULTURES A Series Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta & José Quiroga Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age by Enrico Mario Santí Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place by Jacqueline Loss Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women’s Writing by Benigno Trigo The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise edited by Erin Graff Zivin Forthcoming Titles Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond NEWDIRECTIONSINLATINOAMERICANCULTURES Also Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta & José Quiroga New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone by Raquel Rivera The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico,1901 edited by Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. 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Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-54022-8 ISBN 978-0-230-60738-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230607385 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The ethics of Latin American literary criticism :reading otherwise / edited by Erin Graff Zivin. p.cm.—(New concepts in Latino American cultures) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1–4039–8496–4 (alk.paper) 1.Criticism—Latin America.2.Criticism—Moral and ethical aspects— Latin America.I.Zivin,Erin Graff. PN99.L29E85 2007 809.898—dc22 2007003059 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India. First edition:September 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. For Josh and Simon This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Reading Otherwise 1 Erin Graff Zivin PartI ETHICS, POLITICS, REPRESENTATION 1. The Ethical Superstition 11 Bruno Bosteels 2. Ethics, Perhaps 25 Gabriela Basterra PartII ETHICSANDCULTURALSTUDIES 3. Ethics and Citizenship in the Blogosphere: Academics Meet New Technologies of Online Publication 45 Idelber Avelar 4. Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil 63 Esther Gabara PartIII THELIMITSOFLITERATURE 5. A Few Notes on Constructed Worlds: The Contradictory Legacy of Past Decades 105 Sergio Chejfec 6. Saying the Unsayable: Saer, or for an Ethics of Writing 115 Gabriel Riera viii Contents 7. Infrapolitics and the Thriller: A Prolegomenon to Every Possible Form of Antimoralist Literary Criticism. On Héctor Aguilar Camín’s La guerra de Galio andMorir en el golfo 147 Alberto Moreiras PartIV THEEXPERIENCEOFREADING 8. Ethical Asymmetries: Learning to Love a Loss 183 Doris Sommer 9. Reading for the People and Getting There First 201 Francine Masiello List of Contributors 217 Index 221 LIST OF FIGURES 4.1 “Toada,” S. Paulo, August 1936. Biblioteca, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo. 76 4.2 “The Paulista Sense of Brazilian Life Means:” S. Paulo, January 1936. Biblioteca, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo. 78 4.3 S. Paulo, September–October 1936. Biblioteca, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo. 81 4.4 El Caballero Puck, “Masks,” El Universal Ilustrado, March 4, 1926. Hemeroteca Nacional, Universidad Autónoma de México. 92 4.5 “Our Artists in Masks,” El Universal Ilustrado, March 4, 1926. Hemeroteca Nacional, Universidad Autónoma de México. 93 4.6 Xavier Villaurrutia, “The Mask,” El Universal Ilustrado, March 4, 1926. Hemeroteca Nacional, Universidad Autónoma de México. 95
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