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Critical Terms In Caribbean And Latin American Thought: Historical And Institutional Trajectories., Rebecca Janzen
Critical Terms In Caribbean And Latin American Thought: Historical And Institutional Trajectories., Rebecca Janzen
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Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
Social Imaginaries And The Theory Of The Normative Utterance, Meili Steele
Social Imaginaries And The Theory Of The Normative Utterance, Meili Steele
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Theorists of the social imaginary, such as Benedict Anderson, Charles Taylor, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Marcel Gauchet have given us new ways to talk about the structures of the shared meanings and practices of the West. As a group, they have directed their arguments against the narrow horizons of meaning oyed by deliberative political theories in developing their basic normative concepts and principles. Anderson speaks of the new shapes of time and space provided by the novel and newspaper; Taylor and Gauchet discuss the ontological importance of the emergence of secularity, the public sphere, popular sovereignty, and the market; Castoriadis places …
Femininity And The Gothic Animal: Spofford And Bierce, Gender And Genre, David Greven
Femininity And The Gothic Animal: Spofford And Bierce, Gender And Genre, David Greven
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Zouave Stories: Gender, Catholic Spirituality, And French Responses To The Roman Question, Carol E. Harrison
Zouave Stories: Gender, Catholic Spirituality, And French Responses To The Roman Question, Carol E. Harrison
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