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The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City : Latin America in the Cold War.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Convergences: Inventories of the Present SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674037175
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Decline and Fall of the Lettered CityDDC classification:
  • 860.9/98/09045
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Conflicting Universals -- 1. Killing Them Softly: The Cold War and Culture -- 2. Communist Manifestos -- 3. Liberated Territories -- II. Peripheral Fantasies -- 4. Antistates -- 5. The Black Angel of Lost Time -- 6. The Magic of Alterity -- III. A Cultural Revolution -- 7. Cultural Revolutions: Trouble in the City -- 8. The Seduction of Margins -- 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization -- 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History -- 11. Inside the Empire -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values. This book charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Conflicting Universals -- 1. Killing Them Softly: The Cold War and Culture -- 2. Communist Manifestos -- 3. Liberated Territories -- II. Peripheral Fantasies -- 4. Antistates -- 5. The Black Angel of Lost Time -- 6. The Magic of Alterity -- III. A Cultural Revolution -- 7. Cultural Revolutions: Trouble in the City -- 8. The Seduction of Margins -- 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization -- 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History -- 11. Inside the Empire -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values. This book charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard.

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