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Authors: Ana Del Sarto (Editor), Alicia Rios (Editor), Abril Trigo (Editor), Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Irene Silverblatt
ISBN-13: 9780822333401, ISBN-10: 0822333406
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Ana Del Sarto

Ana Del Sarto is Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures at Bowling Green State University.

Alicia Ríos is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela.

Abril Trigo is Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures at The Ohio State University.

Book Synopsis

Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.

	General introduction	1
I	Forerunners : introduction : traditions and fractures in Latin American cultural studies	15
	Literature and underdevelopment	35
	Excerpts from The Americas and civilization : "evolutionary acceleration and historical incorporation," "the genuine and the spurious," and "national ethnic typology"	58
	Caliban : notes toward a discussion of culture in our America	83
	Indigenismo and heterogeneous literatures : their double sociocultural statute	100
	Mestizaje, transculturation, heterogeneity	116
	Literature and culture	120
II	Foundations : introduction : the 1980s : foundations of Latin American cultural studies	153
	Plotting women : popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America	183
	Would so many millions of people not end up speaking English? : the North American culture and Mexico	203
	Brazilian culture : nationalism by elimination	233
	Intellectuals : scission of mimesis?	250
	The movable center : geographical discourses and territoriality during the expansion of the Spanish empire	262
	Notes on modernity and postmodernity in Latin American culture	291
	A nocturnal map to explore a new field	310
	Cultural studies from the 1980s to the 1990s : anthropological and sociological perspectives in Latin America	329
III	Practices : introduction : the 1990s : practices and polemics within Latin American cultural studies	347
	Political disfranchisement	375
	On citizenship : the grammatology of the body-politic	384
	Male hybrids in the world of soccer	406
	The past as the future : a reactive utopia in Buenos Aires	427
	Tears and desire : women and melodrama in the "old" Mexican cinema	441
	The unbearable lightness of history : bestseller scripts for our times	459
	Legitimacy and lifestyles	474
	The transnational making of representations of gender, ethnicity, and culture : indigenous peoples' organizations at the Smithsonian Institution's festival	498
	The production of local public spheres : community radio stations	513
	Mimicry and the uncanny in Caribbean discourse	535
	Of Zapatismo : reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection	561
	Tentative exchanges : Tijuana prostitutes and their clients	584
	The Latino imaginary : meanings of community and identity	606
IV	Positions and polemics
	Writing in reverse : on the project of the Latin American subaltern studies group	623
	The boom of the subaltern	643
	Latin American intellectuals in a post-hegemonic era	655
	Local/global Latin Americanisms : "theoretical babbling," apropos Roberto Fernandez Retamar	669
	Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism : academic knowledge, theoretical practice, and cultural criticism	686
	Irruption and conservation : some conditions of Latin Americanist critique	706
	The cultural studies movement and Latin America : an overview	728
	Hybridity in a transnational frame : Latin Americanist and postcolonial perspectives on cultural studies	736
	Mestizaje and hybridity : the risks of metaphors - notes	760

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