The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War

by Jean Franco

Book Overview

The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674008421
• ISBN13: 9780674008427
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"