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Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68 (2025)
Book
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J., Sharman, A., & Shingler, K. (Eds.). (2025). Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b15667

May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a re... Read More about Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68.

Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University (2024)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2024). Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University. In Á. . J. Vidal Bouzon, A. Sharman, & K. Shingler (Eds.), Other ‘68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This chapter tracks the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s evolving position on the French experi-ence of May 1968. Lacanian notions around structure and desire were clearly at play in the run up to the May events and initially Lacan was supportive of bot... Read More about Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University.

Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity (2020)
Book
Sharman, A. (2020). Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37019-0

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores texts from five cultural fields (science, history, the periodical press, law, and literatu... Read More about Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity.

Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791 (2017)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2017). Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791. Hispanic Research Journal, 18(4), 306-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2017.1337880

This article examines the applicability of Habermas’ concept of the public sphere to the periodical paper the Mercurio Peruano in 1791. It compares the conditions of production of Habermas’ ‘model’ eighteenth-century European bourgeois public sphere... Read More about Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791.

"Why did they take down the pictures?": conspicuous absences and "la historia de algo más" in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella Distante. (2017)
Book Chapter
Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2017). "Why did they take down the pictures?": conspicuous absences and "la historia de algo más" in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella Distante. In A. Sharman, M. Grass Kleiner, A. M. Lorusso, & S. Savoini (Eds.), MemoSur/MemoSouth: memory, commemoration and trauma in post-dictatorship Argentina and Chile. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press

‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’ (2011)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2011). ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00528.x

The article examines two ‘postmodern’ critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric. It argues that to u... Read More about ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’.