The Exhaustion of Difference

“Alberto Moreiras has been a persistent force in the field of Latin American studies by posing bold and challenging questions about the epistemic, ethical, and aesthetic nature of the discipline. . . . The Exhaustion of Difference effectively reframes many present debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies and constitutes a welcomed intervention in the field.” - Francisco Ortega, Interventions

“The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. Alberto Moreiras argues that the field of cultural studies is ripe for theoretical reformulation.” - Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education

"[A] sophisticated application of poststructuralist analysis that problematizes the function of critical reasoning in the context of globalization. . . . [C]onceptually sophisticated. . . ." - Latin American Research Review

"[E]xcellent. . . ." - Juan E. Poblete , Symploke

"The time is certainly ripe for a book with the ambition and competence this one doubtless has. . . . [I]t succeeds admirably in its project of intellectually ransoming and enhancing Latin Americanism, and of clearing a space for meaningful debate." - Gordon Brotherston, Journal of Latin American Studies

“The Exhaustion of Difference ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation—and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.” - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

“With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.” - Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de Crítica Cultural