Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the

Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance (Just Ideas)

Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of â€œilliteracyâ€ as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. â€œIlliteracy,â€ 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.â€“Mexican border.

Through a critical examination of the â€œilliterateâ€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Fordham University Press
Manufacturer American Literatures Initiative
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-04-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780823257102

Country	USA
Brand	Fordham University Press
Manufacturer	American Literatures Initiative
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2014-04-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780823257102

Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance (Just Ideas)

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