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Format: 1 online resource (832 p.) : , 5 b&w photos, 27 illus.

ISBN: 9780822385462

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: 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 historical formation, and an outline of its significant ideological and methodological trends and theoretical controversies. With many essays appearing in English for the first time, the collection offers a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies that characterize Latin American cultural studies vis-à-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.Divided into sections preceded by brief introductory essays, this volume traces the complex development of Latin American cultural studies from its roots in literary criticism and the economic, social, political, and cultural transformations wrought by neoliberal policies in the 1970s. It tracks the impassioned debates within the field during the early 1990s; explores different theoretical trends, including studies of postcolonialism, the subaltern, and globalization; and reflects on the significance of Latin American cultural studies for cultural studies projects outside Latin America. Considering literature, nationalism, soccer, cinema, postcolonialism, the Zapatistas, community radio, and much more, The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader is an invaluable resource for all those who want to understand the past, present, and future of Latin American cultural studies.Contributors. Hugo Achugar, Eduardo Archetti, John Beverley, José Joaquín Brunner, Antonio Candido, Debra A. Castillo, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Román de la Campa, Ana Del Sarto, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Juan Flores, Jean Franco, Néstor García Canclini, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, Adrián Gorelik, John Kraniauskas, Neil Larsen, Ana López, Jesús Martín-Barbero, Francine Masiello, Daniel Mato, Walter D. Mignolo, Carlos Monsiváis, Mabel Moraña, Alberto Moreiras, Renato Ortiz, José Rabasa, Angel Rama, Gustavo A. Remedi, Darcy Ribeiro, Nelly Richard, Alicia Ríos, Beatriz Sarlo, Roberto Schwarz, Irene Silverblatt, Graciela Silvestri, Armando Rosas Solís, Beatriz González Stephan, Abril Trigo, George Yúdice

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments, -- , General Introduction -- , I. Forerunners. Traditions and Fractures in Latin American Cultural Studies -- , Introduction -- , Literature and Underdevelopment -- , Excerpts from The Americas and Civilization: ‘‘Evolutionary Acceleration and Historical Incorporation,’’ ‘‘The Genuine and the Spurious,’’ and ‘‘National Ethnic Typology,’’ -- , Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America -- , Indigenismo and Heterogeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute -- , Mestizaje, Transculturation, Heterogeneity -- , Literature and Culture -- , II. Foundations. The 1980s: Foundations of Latin American Cultural Studies -- , Introduction -- , Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America -- , Would So Many Millions of People Not End Up Speaking English? The North American Culture and Mexico -- , Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination -- , Intellectuals: Scission or Mimesis? -- , The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire -- , Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture -- , A Nocturnal Map to Explore a New Field -- , Cultural Studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Latin America -- , III. Practices .The 1990s: Practices and Polemics within Latin American Cultural Studies -- , Introduction -- , Political Disfranchisement -- , On Citizenship: The Grammatology of the Body-Politic -- , Male Hybrids in the World of Soccer -- , The Past as the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires -- , Tears and Desire:Women and Melodrama in the ‘‘Old’’ Mexican Cinema -- , The Unbearable Lightness of History: Bestseller Scripts for Our Times -- , Legitimacy and Lifestyles -- , The Transnational Making of Representations of Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture: Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations at the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival -- , The Production of Local Public Spheres: Community Radio Stations -- , Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse -- , Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection -- , Tentative Exchanges: Tijuana Prostitutes and Their Clients -- , The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity -- , IV. Positions and Polemics -- , Writing in Reverse: On the Project of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group -- , The Boom of the Subaltern -- , Latin American Intellectuals in a Post-Hegemonic Era -- , Local/Global Latin Americanisms: “Theoretical Babbling,’’ apropos Roberto Fernandez Retamar -- , Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: Academic Knowledge, Theoretical Practice, and Cultural Criticism -- , Irruption and Conservation: Some Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique -- , The Cultural Studies Movement and Latin America: An Overview -- , Hybridity in a Transnational Frame: Latin Americanist and Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Studies -- , Mestizaje and Hybridity: The Risks of Metaphors—Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822385462

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385462

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822385462

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385462

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822385462