"This book offers a keen analysis of the roles played by writing and intellectuals in the configurations of Latin American urban institutions. Indeed, more than a book, The Lettered City could be better understood as an event, a self-reflective operation that radically questioned the conditions of thinking and writing in Latin America, a critical intensification of intellectual practices that both displaced and relocated the ubiquitous subject of Latinamericanism." - Julio Ramos, University of California, Berkeley "The Lettered City changed the ways in which historians, intellectuals and literary critics thought of the literary and cultural history of Latin America." - Walter Mignolo, Duke University
