ISBN:
0816619395
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0816619387
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9780816619399
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 234 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) v. 4
Serie:
Cultural Politics
Paralleltitel:
Print version On Edge : The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture
DDC:
306.4/098
Schlagwort(e):
Privatization Social aspects
;
Intercultural communication Social aspects
;
Culture diffusion
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Culture diffusion ; Latin America
;
Intercultural communication ; Social aspects ; Latin America
;
Latin America ; Cultural policy
;
Privatization ; Social aspects ; Latin America
;
Electronic books
;
Latin America Cultural policy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
""On the Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture lays out the parameters of the issues: ethnicity, race, oppositional culture (popular), liberal democracy, the discrediting of the Left, and the women's movement. In total, this collection provides a good overview of significant issues in Latin American thought."" Journal of Communication. ""These essays by authors from a wide range of fields and nationalities explore problems and possibilities that the postmodernism debate poses to the reconfigurations of cultural identity in different Latin American contexts."" Diacritics. ""On
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Introduction; Postmodernity and Transnational Capitalism in Latin America; Cultural Reconversion; Liberalism and Authority: The Case of Mario Vargas Llosa; Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private; ""The Other Side of the Process"": Racial Formation in Contemporary Brazil; Theater after the Revolution: Refiguring the Political in Cuba and Nicaragua; Bad Poetry, Worse Society; Cultural Redemocratization: Argentina, 1978-89; Cortijo's Revenge: New Mappings of Puerto Rican Culture; Interview with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto: The Chicano Movement in a Multicultural/ Multinational Society
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
ContributorsIndex
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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