Capitalism and its Discontents

Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture

Author(s) John Kraniauskas

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Social Policy and Law

Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies

  • January 2017 · 320 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9781783169542
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781783169559
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783169566

Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.

Author(s): John Kraniauskas

John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. A founding co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, he writes widely on Latin American literary and cultural studies, political philosophy and cultural theory.

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