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In this timely book, Roman de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America being studied in so many U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America's own cultural, political, and literary practices and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction.

De la Campa focuses particularly on the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in U.S. universities and compares it with the "Latin Americanism" of Latin America itself. He examines the translation of Latin American works into English, the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in English, the careerism of U.S. intellectuals, and the diaspora of "third world" intellectuals. In a reconsideration of the vogue in Latin American literature and magical realism in light of new work by theorists residing in Latin,America, he contrasts this work with critiques of Latin American discourses in the United States.

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Recent interdisciplinary studies on Latin American literature and cultures have pointed out the sociopolitical ramifications inherent in the various trends of contemporary literary criticism. De la Campa (SUNY, Stony Brook) offers a fascinating overview of Latin American literature from an activist perspective: "more culturalist, social, economic, and feminist groundings of Latin America." De la Campa includes fascinating, original readings on the intersection of "native" figures from Latin American societies, such as Sandino and Che Guevara, along with distinguished writers such as Borges and Cortazar. Divided into six chapters, the book strives to provide a postcolonial analysis of Latin American literature with emphasis on the boom and postboom literary productions. Heavily influenced by international postcolonial literary critics--Spivak, Benitez Rojo, Bhabha, Fanon, et al.--de 1a Campa achieves a highly sophisticated reading of key Latin American literary and political figures. His comparative study on Antonio Benitez Rojo and Eduard Glissant will be of particular interest to scholars of Caribbean literature. The book's most innovative chapter is devoted to the Latin American critic Angel Rama and his posthumously published The Lettered City (Eng tr., 1996). Highly recommended to upper-division undergraduates through advanced graduate students. R. Ocasio; Agnes Scott College