Thresholds Of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, And The Crisis Of Resistance (just Ideas (fup))
by Abraham Acosta /
2014 / English / PDF
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Thresholds of Illiteracy
Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American
theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the
concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding
scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," 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.
reevaluates Latin American
theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the
concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding
scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," 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.-Mexican
border.
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.-Mexican
border.
Through a critical examination of the "illiterate" 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.
Through a critical examination of the "illiterate" 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.
