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Vernacular Latin Americanisms : war, the market, and the making of a discipline /

In Vernacular Latin Americanisms, Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and still inform their function in the globalized and neoliberal university of today. By doing so he provides a reevaluation of a field whose epistemological...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Degiovanni, Fernando (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Latin America > Study and teaching (Higher)
Latin American literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Latin America > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Knavish Latin Americans
  • A teacher-spy from Brooklyn
  • Colonizing an empire
  • Policing the field
  • University rebels
  • A discipline of war
  • The history of a best seller.