The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis. FRANCINE MASIELLO: Duke University Press, 2001.

Abstract

In The Art of Transition, Francine Masiello sets out to examine “culture as it moves from conditions of dictatorship to democracy” and “the fate of culture under market domain” (xi). Following this lead, my concern in the present review is not with her interpretation of literary texts, but rather her arguments concerning how markets and globalization explain the emergence of new voices and themes elaborated in those texts.