Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture. By Roberto Schwarz. [Critical Studies in Latin American Culture.] (New York: Verso, 1992. Pp. xx, 204. Notes. Index. $59.95.)

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-557
Author(s):  
Maria Angelica Lopes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Brazilian Culture

«Fuera de lugar»: Roberto Schwarz y la centralidad de la experiencia periférica

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Jordi Maiso
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
The Way

This article analyses Roberto Schwarz’s contributions to understanding the significance of Brazilian culture in relation to the way in which it is embedded in the dynamics of global capitalism. At first, it analyses to what extent his approach to Latin American culture can be understood as a dialectical alternative to postcolonial and subaltern studies. Then, based on his analysis of the intertwining of artistic form and social reality, it focuses on how Schwarz reveals the significance of Machado de Assis’ late narrative, which goes far beyond the strictly local. Finally, it offers some insights into his understanding of the evolution of the peripheral ‘maladjustment’ in the recent evolution of global capitalism on the basis of Paulo Lins’ novel Cidade de Deus.

Contemporary Latin American Culture: Unity and Diversity

Hispania ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Donald W. Bleznick ◽  
C. Gail Guntermann
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Latin American Culture

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Identity And Difference ◽  
Opening Up

The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that a critical perspective anchored in conflict and multiplicity at the edge of what is termed “human” can generate fresh assessments of the ways in which Latin American cultural production has confronted historical, ethical, political, and economic processes. Such cultural production at the edge of the human promotes awareness of the ways in which the decentering of the human subject, now so often invoked as a means of encouraging radical equality across species lines, has also been used as an instrument of oppression and exclusion across history. Our principal argument is that a conceptual focus on “limits” as figures of human-nonhuman relations allows for the opening up of new dimensions to longstanding debates around identity and difference, the local and the global, and coloniality and power in Latin American culture.

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