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by Jean Franco; Mary Louise Pratt (Editor); Kathleen M. Newman (Editor)


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Jean Franco's work as a pathbreaking theorist, cultural critic, and scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Critical Passions is the first volume to gather a wide-ranging selection of Franco's influential essays.
A key participant in the major debates in Latin American studies--beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism--Franco is recognized for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. While her principal books are all readily available, Franco's several dozen articles are dispersed in a variety of periodicals in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Although many of these essays are considered pioneering and classic, they have never before been collected in a single work. In this volume, Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman have organized the essays into four interrelated sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American literature from the "boom" onward, and the cultural history of Mexico. As a group, these writings demonstrate Franco's ability to reflect on and judge with equal seriousness all spheres of expression, whether subway graffiti, a fashion manual, or an avant-garde haiku. A bona fide fan of popular and mass media, Franco never allows her critiques to dissolve into the puritanical or reductive; instead, she finds ways to present and debate complex theoretical questions in direct and accessible language.
This volume will draw an extensive readership in Latin American, cultural, and women's studies.

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"The essays collected in this volume reflect the range, innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have made Jean Franco's work a beacon of light in the study of Latin American culture."--Susan Kirkpatrick, author of "Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain"

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  • Title Critical Passions: Selected Essays
  • Author Jean Franco; Mary Louise Pratt (Editor); Kathleen M. Newman (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 552
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Date 1999
  • ISBN 9780822322481 / 082232248X
  • Weight 2.04 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.11 x 1.2 in (23.44 x 15.52 x 3.05 cm)
  • Reading level 1580
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin America - Civilization, Spanish American literature - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98020723
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.098

About the author

Jean Franco (1924-2022) was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous books include Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, Csar Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence, and A Literary History of Spain and Spanish.

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