Format:
X, 476 S.
,
Ill
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0822959852
,
0822943182
,
9780822959854
,
9780822943181
Series Statement:
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Content:
The jockey club -- Palaces and residences -- Parks, plazas, and Calle Florida -- Passages, public spaces, and cultural crossings -- Theaters and cafés -- Conventillos -- Paradigms and deviations -- Work, the body, and dislocations of identity -- Chains of desire -- Palaces of temptation -- Beauties, femmes fatales, tramps, vamps, and vampires -- Rags and rejects -- Reaffirming old paradigms -- New alliances, old causes -- Putting out fires -- Fractured identities and economic dislocation -- The garçonieres and the sex of power -- In-between identities, peripheral sexualities -- The weak, the violent, and the tearful -- Barrios and melodramas : of love and consternation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The jockey club -- Palaces and residences -- Parks, plazas, and Calle Florida -- Passages, public spaces, and cultural crossings -- Theaters and cafés -- Conventillos -- Paradigms and deviations -- Work, the body, and dislocations of identity -- Chains of desire -- Palaces of temptation -- Beauties, femmes fatales, tramps, vamps, and vampires -- Rags and rejects -- Reaffirming old paradigms -- New alliances, old causes -- Putting out fires -- Fractured identities and economic dislocation -- The garçonieres and the sex of power -- In-between identities, peripheral sexualities -- The weak, the violent, and the tearful -- Barrios and melodramas : of love and consternation
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Buenos Aires
;
Modernisierung
;
Nationenbildung
;
Alltagskultur
;
Geschichte 1900-1930
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31129
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32620
