ABSTRACT
Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to trace the influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse, government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin American thought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|99 pages
Discourse
chapter 4|17 pages
Bordering on Madness
The Licenciado Vidriera, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the Performance of Liminality
part 2|66 pages
Government
chapter 5|22 pages
Love and Country: An Allegorical Speculation
From Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America
chapter 6|11 pages
From Liberty to Fatherland
Sacrifice and Dead Certainties in the Critical Discourses of Cuba
chapter 8|14 pages
Rendering the Invisible Visible and the Visible Invisible
The Colonizing Function of Bailey K. Ashford's Antianemia Campaigns
part 3|40 pages
Subjectivity
part 4|68 pages
Sexuality
chapter 12|23 pages
The Theatrics of Reading: Body and Book in Victoria Ocampo
From At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America
chapter 13|12 pages
“One Nail Takes Out Another”
Power, Gender, and Revolution in Julia Alvarez's Novels
