Literature, Culture, and Society in the New Latin America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2758096 |
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| Authors | William H Katra (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-188 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0023879100022305 |
| OpenAlex | W4312278484 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Just before his execution, the Black Caribbean protagonist in Gillo Pontecorvo's provocative movie Burn, spitefully inquires of his British colonial oppressor, "Civilization belongs to whites, but what civilization, and until when?"} In answer to Jose Dolores's second question, most of the books under review here suggest that the critical voices of a frozen continent are now launching an interrogation into the relationship between literary expression and the unjust sociopolitical and economic institutions still obstructing the human potential of most Latin Americans. But less agreement exists to answer Dolores's first 170
Action (physics) · Content (measure theory) · Latin Americans · Political science · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Mathematics
| Highly cited | No |
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