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between the fully-in-control rational subject and the fully discoursed, decentered
self.
Hall’s and Parker’s arguments are very similar to the theories of hybridity
and local knowledge being advanced by Latin American theorists. Those
arguments validate the specifi cities of local issues, while remaining attentive
to generalizing global trends.
Notes
1. For a good analysis of this image, see Louis Montrose, “The Work of
Gender in the Discourse of Discovery,” Representations 33 (Winter, 1991):
1–41; reprinted in Stephen Greenblat, New World Encounters (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1993) 177–217.
2. For more images, including this one from Puck, see John J. Johnson,
Latin America in Caricature (Austin: U of Texas P, 1980), chap. 3.
3. Jim Heimann, Mexicana: Vintage Mexican Graphics (New York:
Taschen, 2002).
4. Jim Heimann, e-mail with the authors, 1 Nov. 2005. The authors
would like to thank Mr. Heimann for assistance.
5. Daniel Mato, “Latin American Intellectual Practices in Culture and
Power,” lecture delivered at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New
York University, 1 Oct. 2000 .
6. Christopher Butler, Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (New
York: Oxford UP, 2002) 28.
7. Alan Sokal, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative
Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” Social Text 46/47 (Spring/Summer
1996): 217–252.
8. Jonah Goldberg, “Facts and Firemen: An Accidental Phrase Leaps Gloriously
from Controversy,” National Review Online, 18 Jan. 2002 .
9. See Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris, New
Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Oxford: Blackwell,
2005); Peter Sedgewick and Andrew Edgar, eds., Cultural Theory: The
Key Concepts, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Julian Wolfrey,
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory (Chicago: Taylor &
Francis, 2002).
10. Suzanne Fields, “Political Correctness Is Suffocating True Liberal Education,”
The Greenville News, 4 Nov. 2003: 7A.
11. For a good introduction to the history of the CCCS and its main methodologies,
see Patrick Branlinger, Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in
Britain and America (New York: Routledge, 1990). Some of the seminal essays
related to the theories, methods, and critiques of cultural texts related
to cultural studies, including Stuart Hall’s work “Encoding/ Decoding” can
be found in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler, eds.,
Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1992); Simon During, ed., The Cul-