Jean Franco's Decline and Fall of the Lettered City is a cultural study of Latin America during the Cold War. It illuminates the political and cultural projects of the United States and Latin American governments as channeled through artistic luminaries and as combated by the same men and women. It is a colorful and intriguing history that opens up many further channels of studies while still seeming like a complete story in and of itself. If you're interested in how Latin American politics, revolutions, and cultural developments, especially things like the literary Boom were often manifestations of US capital investment, this is a great book for it. Jean Franco is an influential cultural and literary theorist with a very clear and coherent voice that draws together multiple national stories without victimizing Latin America or villainizing the US to the degree that many book on Latin America in the Cold War do. Good book. Beloved of my thesis advisor. and now me!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
today's book goes back to wonderful historical books that have influenced the way i do research
Jean Franco's Decline and Fall of the Lettered City is a cultural study of Latin America during the Cold War. It illuminates the political and cultural projects of the United States and Latin American governments as channeled through artistic luminaries and as combated by the same men and women. It is a colorful and intriguing history that opens up many further channels of studies while still seeming like a complete story in and of itself. If you're interested in how Latin American politics, revolutions, and cultural developments, especially things like the literary Boom were often manifestations of US capital investment, this is a great book for it. Jean Franco is an influential cultural and literary theorist with a very clear and coherent voice that draws together multiple national stories without victimizing Latin America or villainizing the US to the degree that many book on Latin America in the Cold War do. Good book. Beloved of my thesis advisor. and now me!
Jean Franco's Decline and Fall of the Lettered City is a cultural study of Latin America during the Cold War. It illuminates the political and cultural projects of the United States and Latin American governments as channeled through artistic luminaries and as combated by the same men and women. It is a colorful and intriguing history that opens up many further channels of studies while still seeming like a complete story in and of itself. If you're interested in how Latin American politics, revolutions, and cultural developments, especially things like the literary Boom were often manifestations of US capital investment, this is a great book for it. Jean Franco is an influential cultural and literary theorist with a very clear and coherent voice that draws together multiple national stories without victimizing Latin America or villainizing the US to the degree that many book on Latin America in the Cold War do. Good book. Beloved of my thesis advisor. and now me!
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