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...
Jean Franco s work as a pathbreaking theorist, cultural critic, and scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. I...
Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, this second edition continues to investigate the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readers.
Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, this second edition continues to inv...
