ABSTRACT
Post-modernism states that all privileged points of view have been annulled, along with the dominant position which allowed the establishment of hierarchies of interpretation. It introduces a highly ambiguous set of co-ordinates into the worn-out context of modernity which has programmed backwardness the province in order to reintegrate it more readily into its framework of global consumption. Post-modernism dismantles the distinction between centre and periphery, and in so doing nullifies its significance. Its first claim, then, is that it offers room within itself for our Latin American space. Post-modernism defends itself against the destabilizing threat of the other' by integrating it back into a framework which absorbs all differences and contradictions. In the field of culture of art, literature and the history of ideas this dependent and imitative relation to European modernism as transmitted through local elites has created a particular instance of the centre-periphery relationship: that of reproduction'.
