Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 244 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780814277737
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081427773X
Series Statement:
Global Latin/o Americas
Content:
"Examines the work of writers and journalists from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the US from the 1970s to 1990s who appropriated history as a tool for repositioning democracies in a hemispheric context in order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented events"--Provided by publisher"--
Content:
False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) examines the "return of history" that swept across the Americas during the final two decades of the Cold War as Latin American nations redemocratized and US multiculturalism responded to the conservative bicentennial backlash. Revising the predominantly economic and isolationist accounts of the era, Frans Weiser examines the work of journalists and academics from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the United States who adopted fiction to document recent national discord, repositioning challenges to self-determination in a postnational context. After deconstructing economic accounts of the "two Americas'model of the hemisphere, including the lost decade (1981-1992) and the "end of history" (1975-1992), Weiser considers six case studies during the same period that reach very different conclusions by drawing on cultural history, including works by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Laura Antillano, Ana Maria Machado, Silviano Santiago, John Updike, and Jay Cantor. In order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented recent events, these writers created false documents, or fake historical texts, that presented themselves as legitimate eyewitness accounts or archival documents. Weiser establishes how this alternative to postmodern irony more effectively galvanized citizen responses. As the first book to contextualize the parallel, hemispheric evolutions of postwar literary criticism and cultural historiography, False Documents responds to the methodological impasse between Latin American and American studies as well as the antagonism between history and literature, arguing that collaboration and synthesis are particularly vital at a moment when the humanities is increasingly under attack
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Interdependent methods: postwar cultural history, historical literature, and false documents -- History's return: literary revisionism in North America, Hispanic America, and Brazil during the Lost Decade -- The ends of Argentine democracy: the false memoir(s) and cultural hybridity behind Tomás Eloy Martínez's The Perón Novel -- The "dialectics" of feminist Caribbean history: Laura Antillano, José Martí, and the Venezuelan Lost Decade -- History at the periphery: postdictatorial literature and the abandoned generation of Ana Maria Machado's Tropical Sun of Liberty -- Allegorizing Brazilian history: Silviano Santiago's In Liberty, invisible texts, and ideological patrols -- The many deaths of Che Guevara: Jay Cantor's anxiety of origins and the limits of transnationalism -- Renewing history? John Updike's critique of cultural studies and the two Americas in Memories of the Ford Administration
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814214367
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814214363
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814255759
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814255752
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weiser, Frans False documents Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780814214367
Language:
English
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