Foucault and Latin America

Abstract

Introduction by Benigno Trigo Part One: Discourse Chapter 1. The Ordered City, From The Lettered City by Angel Rama, Translated by John Charles Chasteen Chapter 2. The Lettered City: Power and Writing in Latin America, From Latin Americanism by Roman de la Campa Chapter 3. A Clearing in the Jungle: From Santa Monica to Macondo From Myth and Archive, by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Chapter 4. Bordering on Madness: The Licenciado Vidriera, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and the Performance of Liminality, by John Ochoa Part 2: Government Chapter 5. Love and Country: An Allegorical Speculation, From Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America, by Doris Sommer Chapter 6. From Liberty to Fatherland: Sacrifice and Dead Certainties in the Critical Discourses of Cuba, by Aida Beaupied Chapter 7. Governmentality and the Social Question: National Formation and Discipline, by Juan Poblete Chapter 8. Rendering the Invisible Visible and the Visible Invisible: The Colonizing Function of Bailey K. Ashford's Antianemia Campaigns, by Fernando Feliu Translated by Maria Elena Cepeda Part 3: Subjectivity Chapter 9. Thinking Subjectivity in Latin American Criticism, by Benigno Trigo Chapter 10. Subjectivity and Olavide's Sentimental Novels, by Fernando Unzueta Chapter 11. Author-(dys)function: Rereading I, Rigoberta Menchu, by Elzbieta Sklodowska Part 4: Sexuality Chapter 12. The Theatrics of Reading: Body and Book in Victorian Ocampo From At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, by Sylvia Molloy Chapter 13. One Nail Takes Out Another: Power, Gender and Revolution in Julia Alvarez's Novels, by Kelly Oliver Chapter 14. Race Woman: Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral, by Licia Fiol-Matta Chapter 15. Sadomasochism in Paradiso: Bound Narratives and Pleasure, by B. Sifuentes Jauregui Bibliography Contributors Index