<em>IN MEMORIAM</em> On Hernan Vidal

  • John Beverley University of Pittsburgh
Keywords Hernán Vidal, criticism, obituary
Keywords Hernán Vidal, criticism, obituary

Abstract

Obituary for Chilean critic Hernán Vidal.

Author Biography

John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
John Beverley is a professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught since 1969. He was for many years a co-coordinator of the Marxist Literary Group, and more recently of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. He co-edits with Sara Castro Klaren abook series for the University of Pittsburgh Press, Illuminations: Cultural Deformations of the Americas. He has published the edited volumes La voz del otro, From Cuba and The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America and published the following books: Aspects of Gongiora's Soledades, Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo, (with Marc Zimmerman) Literature and Politics in the Central American revolutions, Against Literature, Una modernidad obsoleta: estudios sobre el barroco, Subalternity and Representation, and with the University Minnesota Press, Testimonio: On the Politics of Truth, a compilation of his essays on testimonio.
cover winter 2014
Published
2014-10-15
Issue
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2014): Fall 2014
DOSSIER: The Performance of Archives: Re-imagining Memory and History in Latin America
Section
Preliminares