The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing

by Joshua Lund

"Hybridity" is a term that has been applied to Latin American politics, literature, and intellectual life for more than a century. During the past two decades, it has figured in--and been transfigured by--the work of prominent postcolonialist writers and thinkers throughout the Americas.

In this pathbreaking work, Joshua Lund offers a thoughtful critique of hybridity by reading contemporary theories of cultural mixing against their historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647860
• ISBN13: 9780816647866
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"