Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative and Nation in the Americas

by Neil Larsen

Book Overview

Determinations is both an uncompromising Marxian engagement with an erstwhile 'postcolonial theory' and a set of new critical readings of a body of 'postcolonial' narratives, mainly Latin American. Its central propositions are twofold: first, that the national question, however its terms have changed, is the still under-theorized and unresolved problem that haunts the hyper-abstractions and mystifications of postcolonial theory and other ideological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859843298
• ISBN13: 9781859843291
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"