La Crítica Latinoamericana en el Final de Siglo: Un Balance

Author: D'Allemand P.

Source: Neophilologus, Volume 84, Number 1, January 2000 , pp. 59-74(16)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Since the 1970s the Latin American intellectual sphere has been producing reinterpretations of its history and culture and has consistently distanced itself from universalist and ethnocentric approaches hegemonic until then in the social sciences. Literary criticism has not been alien to this project. In fact, it has been engaged in the construction of an autonomous theoretical and methodological apparatus able to account for the specificity of the literary process of the region and indeed for the plurality of projects that actually constitute it. Through a comparative study of the proposals of Angel Rama and Alejandro Losada, two of the most fruitful contributions to this enterprise -- although by no means the only ones -- this essay attempts to offer a balance both of its achievements and of the obstacles it has encountered; the essay contextualizes and problematizes the nationalist dimension that runs through these proposals and poses questions around the challenges that Latin American criticism is presented with in this fin the siècle and to which it should be able to respond in order to guarantee its relevance and its capacity to continue developing.

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Queen Mary and Westfield College, Universidad de Londres

Publication date: 2000-01-01