I politely turned down a request for a blurb this morning. The book looked like it could have been somewhat interesting, but it was about the alterity of subalternity etc... It had a preface by the most pretentious and arrogant Latin Americanist I know. I guess I could have come up with few lines of insincere praise, "In brilliant and provocative fashion, X interrogates the construction of alterity in ... "
I'm not asking whether the preface is Idelber's -- just imagining ;-).
ReplyDeleteNot him, but you're thinking more or less along the correct path.
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