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h is pa ni c r ev ie w : autumn 2010 p it ch er , j on at ha n. Excess Baggage: A Modern Theory and the Conscious Amnesia of Latin Americanist Thought. American University Studies 29. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. x 250 pp. ´ ´ Cuando recorre los catalogos de publicaciones academicas recientes, el lector ´ especializado se encuentra en raras ocasiones con un libro unico, inclasificable y ´ dificil de evaluar. Excess Baggage de Jonathan Pitcher es uno de esos libros: un ´ ´ texto que, en distintos momentos, opera en terminos de altos vuelos teoricos, ´ ´ ´ ´ autorreflexion sobre el ser academico o critica literaria. El subtitulo del libro habla de dos proyectos que emergen a lo largo del libro, pero que pocas veces logran ´ ´ engarzarse. Evaluar esta obra en los terminos de una resena academica tradicional ~ ´ ´ ´ y tratar de precisar quienes son sus lectores potenciales o cual es el campo academico donde interviene es complicado, puesto que se trata de un trabajo que, en ´ ´ varios momentos, busca exceder los parametros del latinoamericanismo academico ´ ´ ´ a traves de una serie
Hispanic Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 29, 2010
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