The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America

by Charles Hatfield

The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as Jos? Mart? and Jos? Enrique Rod?) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147730729X
• ISBN13: 9781477307298
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"