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#111 Trends and Priorities for Research on Latin America in the 1980s: Perspectives on Anthropology, Economics, History, Literature, Political Science, and Sociology

By Jean Franco

From the Introduction

Literary criticism is not what it was, both because a heterogeneous group of philosophers, anthropologists, and political thinkers (Derrida, Foucault, Althusser, and Levi- Strauss) have affected its basic categories and also because the reading of texts in order to understand how they mean is now of interest to political philosophers, anthropologists, and historians as well as to literary critics. In fact, we are now seeing the emergence of cultural criticism and discourse analysis which goes far beyond the study and evaluation of a small number of canonized literary texts and which also questions the reasons why certain texts come to be evaluated as "literary." 

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