Product Description: 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 flights into ‘globalization’; second, that the important insight into the close cultural link between ‘nation’ and ‘narration’ must be carried further so as to disclose their concretely historical, fully determinate relationship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Seminal work deals with the import and political consequences of the most influential approaches to the study of Latin American literature in the US. Chief virtue resides in scholarly method: a deep investigation of the theoretical foundations of major contributions. Essays demonstrate how many important approaches lack theoretical rigor due to a failure to investigate the philosophical grounding of the ideas deployed in the literary studies. A crucial book for serious critics. Absolutely required for all work on the boom and critical approaches that brought it about and maintain it; as well as for colonial discourse, testimonio, hegemony and ideology, and 'invention' approaches'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Tory helps her friend Taylor with projects including a weathervane for Miss Perry, topped with a carved figure of her dog Marvin.