CR: The New Centennial Review

Jenckes, Kate.
The "New Latin Americanism," or the End of Regionalist Thinking?
CR: The New Centennial Review - Volume 4, Number 3, Winter 2004, pp. 247-270

Michigan State University Press

Kate Jenckes - The "New Latin Americanism," or the End of Regionalist Thinking? - CR: The New Centennial Review 4:3 CR: The New Centennial Review 4.3 (2004) 247-270 The "New Latin Americanism," or the End of Regionalist Thinking? Kate Jenckes Rice University, Houston, Texas The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies By Alberto Moreiras. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. The Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace By Brett Levinson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America, by Gareth Williams. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Any thinking of emancipation must always be a thinking without cartography. --Federico Galende At a moment in which latin american studies is experiencing a renaissance that has recently been proclaimed as the "new Latin Americanism," the new books by Alberto Moreiras, Brett Levinson, and Gareth Williams stand out as unique interventions. It could be argued that the sustained theoretical and self-reflective analysis they offer is genuinely new to the interdisciplinary tradition of Latin Americanism. However, to the extent that these authors question the epistemological premises of Latin Americanism, especially as it has been practiced in the United States in the past 15 years, what they demonstrate is not a new kind of Latin Americanism, but rather the ...