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The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader /

The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American cultural studies, an account of the field's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Trigo, Abril (Editor ), Ríos, Alicia, 1958- (Editor ), Sarto, Ana del, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Forerunners : introduction / Alicia Ríos. Traditions and fractures in Latin American Cultural Studies
  • Literature and underdevelopment / Antonio Candido
  • Excerpts from The Americas and Civilization: "Evolutionary acceleration and historical incorporation," "The genuine and the spurious," and "National ethnic typology" / Darcy Ribeiro
  • Caliban: notes toward a discussion of culture in our America / Roberto Fernández Retamar
  • Indigenismo and heterogeneous literatures: their double sociocultural statute / Antonio Cornejo Polar
  • Mestizaje, transculturation, heterogeneity / Antonio Cornejo Polar
  • II. Foundations: introduction by Ana Del Sarto. The 1980s: foundations of Latin American Cultural Studies
  • Plotting women: popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America / Jean Franco
  • Would so many millions of people not end up speaking English? The North American culture and Mexico / Carlos Monsiváis
  • Brazilian culture: nationalism by elimination / Roberto Schwarz
  • Intellectuals: scission or mimesis? / Beatriz Sarlo
  • The movable center: geographical discourses and territoriality during the expansion of the Spanish Empire / Walter Mignolo
  • Notes on modernity and postmodernity in Latin American Culture / JoseJoaquín Brunner
  • A nocturnal map to explore a new field / Jesús Martín-Barbero
  • Cultural studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: anthropological and sociological perspectives in Latin America / Nestor García Canclini
  • III. Practices: introduction by Abril Trigo. The 1990s: practices and polemics within Latin American cultural studies
  • Political disfranchisement / Irene Silverblatt
  • On citizenship: the grammatology of the body-politic / Beatriz González Stephan
  • Male hybrids in the world of soccer / Eduardo Archetti
  • The past as the future: a reactive utopia in Buenos Aires / Adrián Gorelik and Graciela Silvestri
  • Tears and desire: women and melodrama in the "old" Mexican cinema / Ana M. López
  • The unbearable lightness of history: bestseller scripts for our times / Francine Masiello
  • Legitimacy and lifestyles / Renato Ortiz
  • The transnational making of representations of gender, ethnicity, and culture: indigenous peoples' organizations at the Smithsonian institution's festival / Daniel Mato
  • The production of local public spheres: community radio stations / Gustavo A. Remedi
  • Mimicry and the uncanny in Caribbean discourse / Román De La Campa
  • Of Zapatismo: reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection
  • Tentative exchanges: Tijuana prostitutes and their clients / Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómex, and Armando Rosas Solís
  • The Latino imaginary: meanings of community and identity / Juan Flores
  • IV. Positions and polemics. Writing in reverse: on the project of the Latin American Subaltern studies group / John Beverley
  • The boom of the Subaltern / Mabel Moraña
  • Latin American intellectuals in a post-Hegemonic era / George Yúdice
  • Local / Global Latin Americanisms: "Theoretical babbling," apropos Roberto Fernández Retamar / Hugo Achugar
  • Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: academic knowledge, theoretical practice, and cultural criticism / Nelly Richard
  • Irruption and conservation: some conditions of Latin Americanist critique / Alberto Moreiras
  • The cultural studies movement and Latin America: an overview / Neil Larsen
  • Hybridity in a transnational frame: Latin Americanist and postcolonial perspectives on cultural studies / John Kraniauskas
  • Mestizaje and hybridity: the risks of metaphors / Antonio Cornejo Polar.