Download or read book Latin American Literature and Post-Structuralism written by Bernard McGuirk and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory meets Latin American fiction and poetry in this challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through the agencies of post-structuralism. A reminder that deconstructions cannot occur spontaneously, it highlights the confrontation between theory, politics and literature. The use of literary theory never as a circumscribed field, never as an alternative to literary study, but built ever instrumentally into critical practice, may ensure that one