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Excess Baggage investigates how we read modern theory, how we
apprehend Latin American culture through that theory, why this
approach is flawed, and how our reading could be different. It is a
study of modernity's supersessive, paradoxical attempts to outthink
thought. This methodology, never autochthonous to any context
despite its claims, is traced through one of its more extreme
moments, the Enlightenment, and then through the work of Freud,
Nietzsche, and Marx (and their more recent postmodern acolytes) to
the Reformation. Although these thinkers are self-differentiating,
the divisions are artificial, for each, even in present formats,
references a preternatural origin that is subsequently projected
into the future, disavowing history's ability to perceive itself as
anything other than revolutionary. This book traces post-1960 Latin
Americanism through readings by its critics-cum-theorists, as
dictatorially assigning a univocal reading to a continent's
cultural production, regardless of how ethical the theory may
itself seem. Though predominantly a metacritical work, a reading of
philosophy and its Latin Americanist manifestations, there is also
comparative reading of European, North American, and Latin American
literature. Meaning has always existed in all such contexts, but is
either eradicated or misread by the premises of our critical
equipment. In fact or fiction, Excess Baggage appeals for an
admission of contextualized mnemotechny, inevitable in thought
regardless, and the real danger in the present milieu.
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