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Discourses, Discontinuities, and the Urban Episteme: The City in Latin American Cultural Thought

Date:
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Location:
West End Room, 18th Floor Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Professor Liliana Gomez-Popescu
 
 
In 1984 Uruguayan writer, academic and literary critic Ángel Rama published La ciudad letrada (The Lettered City), an enormously influential work proposing that Latin America is a European ideal imposed on an unruly landscape and that this ideal, sometimes
maintained but more often modifi ed by the philosophies and literatures of the urban Latin American letrados, has been a powerful
current in Latin American history since the days of colonial construction. Dr. Liliana Gómez-Popescu argues that there is a need
to go beyond the conceptual model of the lettered city proposed by Rama to account for the new urban structures of power
inherent in the present-day Latin American megalopolis.  THIS LECTURE WILL BE GIVEN IN ENGLISH.