Jean Franco

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Jean Franco (born March 31, 1924 in Great Britain ) is a British literary scholar ( Latin American studies ) and literary critic .

Live and act

Franco studied at the Universities of Manchester and London . After successfully completing her degree, she was appointed to the University of Essex , and later she took a chair at the University of London .

Franco also taught at Stanford and Columbia universities for a long time . She retired at the latter, but is still connected to this university in many ways.

Franco made a contribution to literature in Latin America; An important focus for her was women's research .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Essays
  • Beyond ethnocentrism. Gender, power and the third-world intelligentsia . In: Patrick Williams u. a. (Ed.): Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory. A reader . University Press, New York 1994, pp. 359-370, ISBN 0-231-10020-5 .
  • Globalization and the crisis of the popular . In: Ton Salman (Ed.): The legacy of the disinherited. Popular culture in Latin America (Latin American Studies; Vol. 76). CEDLA, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 263-278, ISBN 90-70280-46-9 .
  • Killing priests, nuns, women, children . In: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Ed.): Violence in war and peace (Blackwells Reader in anthropology; Vol. 5). Blackwell Publ., Malden, Mass. 2004, pp. 196-199, ISBN 0-631-22348-7 .
  • A touch of evil. Jesusa Rodriguez 'subversive church . In: Diana Taylor et al. a. (Ed.): Negotiating performance. Gender, sexuality, and theatricality in Latin America . University Press, Durham, NC 1994, pp. 159-175, ISBN 0-8223-1504-1 .
Monographs
  • The decline and fall of the lettered city. Latin America and the cold war . University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2002, ISBN 0-674-00752-2 .
  • An introduction to Spanish-American Literature . 3rd ed. University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-44479-9 .
  • The modern culture of Latin America. Society and the artist . Pall Mall Press, London 1967.
  • César Vallejo . The dialectics of Poetry and Silence . University Press, Cambridge 1976, ISBN 0-521-21063-1 .
  • Plotting women. Gender and representation in Mexico . University Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-231-06422-5 .
Work edition
  • Mary L. Pratt, Kathleen Newman (Eds.): Critical Passions. Selected essays . University Press, Durham, NC 1999, ISBN 0-8223-2248-X .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Franco, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar and critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain