{"product_id":"the-impure-imagination-toward-a-critical-hybridity-in-latin-american-writing-9780816647866","title":"The Impure Imagination: Toward A Critical Hybridity In Latin American Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua Lund\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Caribbean \u0026amp; Latin American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hybridity\" is a term that has been applied to Latin American politics, literature, and intellectual life for more than a century. During the past two decades, it has figured in-and been transfigured by-the work of prominent postcolonialist writers and thinkers throughout the Americas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this pathbreaking work, Joshua Lund offers a thoughtful critique of hybridity by reading contemporary theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. \u003ci\u003eThe Impure Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to systematically analyze today's dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a particular focus on Mexico and Brazil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Generally understood as the impurification of standard or canonized forms, hybridity has historically been embraced as a basic marker of Latin American regional identity and as a strategy of resistance to cultural imperialism. Lund contends that Latin American theories and narratives of hybridity have been, and continue to be, underwritten by a structure of colonial power. Here he provides an informed critique and cogent investigation of this connection, its cultural effects, and its political implications. Using the emergence of hybridity as an analytical frame for thinking about culture in the Americas, Lund examines the contributions of influential thinkers, including N�stor Garc�a Canclini, Homi Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Candido, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Distinguished by its philosophical grounding and underpinned with case studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Impure Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e employs postcolonial theory and theories of race as it explores Latin American history and culture. The result is an original and interrogative study of hybridity that exposes surprising-and unsettling-similarities with nationalistic discourses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joshua Lund is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Contracorriente, Race \u0026amp; Class, Cultural Critique, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47588288594071,"sku":"9780816647866","price":3015.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816647866.webp?v=1774967621","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-impure-imagination-toward-a-critical-hybridity-in-latin-american-writing-9780816647866","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}