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Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. The reformist projects that focus her attention develop momentum and meaning as they circulate through society to inspire faith in the possible. Among the cases that she covers are top-down initiatives of political leaders, such as those launched by Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and also bottom-up movements like the Theatre of the Oppressed created by the Brazilian director, writer, and educator Augusto Boal. Alleging that we are all cultural agents, Sommer also takes herself to task and creates Pre-Texts, an international arts-literacy project that translates high literary theory through popular creative practices. The Work of Art in the World is informed by many writers and theorists. Foremost among them is the eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, who remains an eloquent defender of art-making and humanistic interpretation in the construction of political freedom. Schiller's thinking runs throughout Sommer's modern-day call for citizens to collaborate in the endless co-creation of a more just and more beautiful world.
Hardcover:
9780822355724 | Duke Univ Pr, January 8, 2014, cover price $79.95
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9780822355861 | Duke Univ Pr, January 8, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world.
Product Description: âCultural agencyâ refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting on exemplary cases and thereby making them available as inspirations for more constructive theory and more innovative practice...read more
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9780822334873 | Duke Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $94.95
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9780822334996 | Duke Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: âCultural agencyâ refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts.
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9789583801143 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2005, cover price $28.99
Product Description: Este libro define la relación entre las novelas románticas y los cimientos nacionales en América Latina y explica cómo la consolidación de los Estados y la novela marcharon de la mano. Cada capÃtulo analiza textos paradigmáticos de la narrativa, escritos entre mediados del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX, que sirvieron de divisa ideológica para establecer sÃmbolos de nación: El Zarco en México, MarÃa en Colombia, Amalia en Argentina y Doña Bárbara en Venezuela, entre otras, recuperando la importancia histórica y literaria de estas narraciones fundacionales...read more
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9789588249001 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Este libro define la relación entre las novelas románticas y los cimientos nacionales en América Latina y explica cómo la consolidación de los Estados y la novela marcharon de la mano.
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9780822333326 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $84.95
Paperback:
9780822333449 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.95
These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernismâmultiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally liveâthat is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laughâin more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship (aesthetics; language and philosophy; psychoanalysis, and politics) cannot see or hear more than one language at a time. The goal of these essays is to create a new field: bilingual arts & aesthetics which examine the aesthetic product produced by bilingual diasporic communities. The focus of this volume is the Americas, but examples and theoretical proposals come from Europe as well. In both areas, the issue offers another level of complexity to the migrant and cosmopolitan character of local societies in a global economy. (view table of contents)
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9781403960115 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 22, 2003), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernismâmultiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication.
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9781403960122 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 22, 2003), cover price $45.00
Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism. (view table of contents)
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9780674536586 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: Let the reader beware.
Paperback:
9780674536609 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $44.50
Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood. Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known and respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano and Nuyorican habitats; from turn of the century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence and dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera and Brazilâs move beyond monarchy; and from the precarious survival of Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (June 1996), this expanded edition includes a new introduction by Doris Sommer and a new essay by Vincente Rafael. Viewed together, these essays reveal a cultural richness that is sure to interest literary scholars and Latin Americanists alike.Contributors. Carlos J. Alonso, Antonio BenÃtez-Rojo, John Beverley, Debra A. Castillo, Arcadio Diaz-Quiñones, Juan Flores, Mary M. Gaylord, José Limón, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello, Antonio Mazzotti, Walter D. Mignolo, Sylvia Molloy, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincente Rafael, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Roberto Schwarz, Diana Taylor, Nancy Vogeley (view table of contents)
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9780822323105 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies.
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9780822323440 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.95
9780822364368 | Duke Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Costumbrismo, or regionalism, was a nineteenth-century response to economic and political globalization.
Product Description: National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780520071100 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America.
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9780520082854 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America.
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9780415904322, titled "Nationalisms & Sexualities" | Routledge, January 1, 1992, cover price $62.95
Paperback:
9780415904339 | Routledge, December 1, 1991, cover price $37.95
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9780819136060 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 1984, cover price $13.25
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