TY - GEN T1 - False documents : inter-American cultural history, literature, and the lost decade (1975-1992) T2 - Global Latin/o Americas. A1 - Weiser, Frans LA - English PP - Columbus PB - The Ohio State University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1142985540 AB - ""Examines the work of writers and journalists from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the US from the 1970s to 1990s who appropriated history as a tool for repositioning democracies in a hemispheric context in order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented events"--Provided by publisher"-- AB - False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) examines the "return of history" that swept across the Americas during the final two decades of the Cold War as Latin American nations redemocratized and US multiculturalism responded to the conservative bicentennial backlash. Revising the predominantly economic and isolationist accounts of the era, Frans Weiser examines the work of journalists and academics from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the United States who adopted fiction to document recent national discord, repositioning challenges to self-determination in a postnational context. After deconstructing economic accounts of the "two Americas'model of the hemisphere, including the lost decade (1981-1992) and the "end of history" (1975-1992), Weiser considers six case studies during the same period that reach very different conclusions by drawing on cultural history, including works by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Laura Antillano, Ana Maria Machado, Silviano Santiago, John Updike, and Jay Cantor. In order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented recent events, these writers created false documents, or fake historical texts, that presented themselves as legitimate eyewitness accounts or archival documents. Weiser establishes how this alternative to postmodern irony more effectively galvanized citizen responses. As the first book to contextualize the parallel, hemispheric evolutions of postwar literary criticism and cultural historiography, False Documents responds to the methodological impasse between Latin American and American studies as well as the antagonism between history and literature, arguing that collaboration and synthesis are particularly vital at a moment when the humanities is increasingly under attack OP - 244 CN - PQ7082.N7 W42 2020 SN - 9780814277737 SN - 081427773X SN - 9780814214367 SN - 0814214363 SN - 9780814255759 SN - 0814255752 KW - Latin American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature and history : Latin America : History : 20th century. KW - Literature and history : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Comparative literature : Latin American and American. KW - Comparative literature : American and Latin American. KW - Latin America : Historiography. KW - United States : Historiography. KW - Roman latino-américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et histoire : Amérique latine : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Littérature et histoire : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Amérique latine : Historiographie. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - American fiction KW - Historiography KW - Latin American fiction KW - Literature and history KW - Latin America KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -