Foucault and Latin America

<p><em> Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to trace</em><em>the influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse,</em><em>government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin American</em><em>thought.</em></p> <p>Introduction by Benigno Trigo; Part 1: Discourse; 1. The Ordered City From The Lettered City by Angel Rama, translated by John Charles Chasteen ; 2. The Lettered City : Power and Writing in Latin America by Román de la Campa; 3. A Clearing in the Jungle: From Santa Mónica to Macondo: From Myth and Archive by Roberto González Echevarría; 4. Bordering on Madness: The Licenciado Vidriera , Guillermo Gómez Peña and the Performance of Liminality by John Ochoa; Part 2: Government; 5. Love and Country: An Allegorical Speculation From Foundational Fictions; The National Romances of Latin America by Doris Sommer; 6. From Liberty to Fatherland; Sacrifice and Dead Certainties in the Critical Discourses of Cuba by Aída Beaupied; 7. Governmentality and the Social Question: National Formation and Discipline by Juan Poblete; 8. Rendering the Invisible Visible and the Visible Invisible: The Colonizing Function of Bailey K. Ashford's Antianemia Campaigns by Fernando Feliú, translated by Maria Elena Cepeda; Part 3: Subjectivity; 9. Thinking Subjectivity in Latin American Criticism by Benigno Trigo; 10. Subjectivity and Olavide's Sentimental Novels by Fernando Unzueta; 11. Author-(dys)function: Re-reading I. Rigoberta Menchu by Elzbieta Sklodowska; Part 4: Sexuality; 12. The Theatrics of Reading: Body and Book in Victoria Ocampo From At Face Value; Autobiography Writing in Spanish America by Sylvia Molloy; 13. One nail Takes Out Another: Power, Gender and Revolution in Julia Alvarez's Novels by Kelly Oliver; 14. Race Woman: Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral by Licia Fiol-Matta; 15. Sadomasochism in Paradiso ; Bound Narratives and Pleasure by B. Sifuentes Jáuregui</p>