ISBN:
3868215905
,
9781939743138
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9783868215908
Language:
English
Pages:
370 Seiten
,
23 Illustrationen
,
21 cm x 14.8 cm, 627 g
Series Statement:
Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos volume 15
Series Statement:
Inter-American studies
DDC:
809.897
Keywords:
Identity (Psychology) in mass media
;
Multiculturalism in mass media
;
Mass media and culture North America
;
Mass media and culture South America
;
Identity (Psychology) in mass media
;
Mass media and culture North America
;
Mass media and culture South America
;
Multiculturalism in mass media
;
Konferenzschrift 2010
;
Amerika
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Kulturelle Identität
Abstract:
Spaces. Josef Raab: The violent conundrum of the megacity in Cidade de deus, Amores perros, and Crash -- Minni Sawhney: Mexican border literature: peripheral or alternative? -- Sophia A. McClennen: Life in the red zone; or, the geographies of neoliberalism -- Horst Tonn: "Can anyone tell me what time it is?" time and the future in Ruben Martinez's The other side -- Antje Dieterich: Representations of indigeneity in the border space Mexico/U.S.A. or, becoming indigenous in Aztlan -- Alexia Schemien: "You people used to be conquistadores for Christ's sake": an inter-American perspective on Breaking bad -- Communities. Allan Smith: Conceptualizing identitarian complexity in the geolinguistic regions of the Western hemisphere: the Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-speaking Americas on common analytical ground -- Gonzalo Portocarrero: The dynamics of cultural (dis)encounter: the rise of Sendero Luminoso as a paradigmatic case for a dialogue between the 'global' and the 'local' -- Margarita Lopez Maya: Communal councils: analyzing the perception of participants in Caracas -- Kathrin Luckmann de Lopez: The role of lanaguage indexing ethnic identity in short stories by Mary Helen Ponce -- Insa Neumann: Dropping the Hyphen: American identity construction in the hyphenated family -- Birthe W. Horn: An interview with Chicana performance artist Monica Palacios -- Saskia Hertlein: Inter-American identities in contemporary coming-of-age fiction -- Discourses. Carmen Marteniz Novo: The twenty-first century left in Latin America and indigenous rights -- Florian Sedlmeir: Intermedial exhaustion in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and the problem of comparison -- Frank Erik Pointner: The qualitative and quantitative construction of a Latin American diaspora in Gilbert Hernandez's graphic novels -- Yolanda Melgar Pernêas: Photographing border consciousness: Norma Elia Canto's Cancula snapshots of a girlhood en la frontera -- Breanne Robertson: Mayans, maize and the Middle West: remaking American identity in the Ames mural competition -- Berndt Ostendorf: The rise and fall of multicultural theory and practice: the ideological contradictions of belonging
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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