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Overview
In Latinamericanism after 9/11, John Beverley explores Latinamericanist cultural theory in relation to new modes of political mobilization in Latin America. He contends that after 9/11, the hegemony of the United States and the neoliberal assumptions of the so-called Washington Consensus began to fade in Latin America. At the same time, the emergence in Latin America of new leftist governments—the marea rosada or “pink tide”—gathered momentum. Whatever its outcome, the marea rosada has shifted the grounds of Latinamericanist thinking in a significant way. Beverley proposes new paradigms better suited to Latin America’s reconfigured political landscape. In the process, he takes up matters such as Latin American postcolonial and cultural studies, the relation of deconstruction and Latinamericanism, the persistence of the national question and cultural nationalism in Latin America, the neoconservative turn in recent Latin American literary and cultural criticism, and the relation between subalternity and the state. Beverley’s perspective flows out of his involvement with the project of Latin American subaltern studies, but it also defines a position that is in some ways postsubalternist. He takes particular issue with recent calls for a “posthegemonic” politics.
Editorials
From the Publisher
“A wide-ranging treatise on Latinamericanism’s merits, faults, and promise, this book will assuredly offer food for thought for intellectuals on both sides of the North/South divide for many years to come.” - Michael J. Lazzara, Postcolonial Text“Conversant across the disciplines (sociology, history, economics, politics, literary criticism) with worldwide theorists and familiar with a ‘studies’ approach, Beverley produces a book of ambitious scope with a striking conclusion that the reader, though disinclined to accept, is hard-pressed to ignore. Highly recommended.” - J. M. Beatson, Choice
“Latinamericanism after 9/11 presents new arguments that no one in the field of Latin American studies can afford to ignore. John Beverley addresses and complicates many of the debates conducted over the last decade on the question of Latinamericanism and Latin American studies. He engages with scholars writing from Latin America and those writing about it from elsewhere, and he is quite convincing in debunking the epistemological force often associated with this distinction.”—José Rabasa, Harvard University
“One does not need to agree with the conclusions reached by John Beverley in this daring book about the eroding grounds of Latin Americanist culturalist discourses in order to be moved, at each new turn, by the intellectual force and relevance of his arguments.”—Julio Ramos, University of California, Berkeley
“The spectrum of political possibilities and options is perhaps greater and more varied in Latin America today than anywhere else in the world. In the North, we can learn from it and learn from John Beverley’s book, which offers a comparative analysis rather than abstract political theory or journalistic sociology. Beverley is one of those rare thinkers who combines a keen theoretical mind with the realism of a shrewd and seasoned political intelligence. He always thinks politically, and it is a thought we find on every page here.”—Fredric Jameson, Duke University