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  • Concrete and Countryside

    The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture

    Diziler series Illuminations
    From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development reigned over official discourses, the newly installed insular government, along with some ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL2.356,67

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  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    Diziler series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.347,47

  • Dream Nation

    Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

    Diziler series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.204,79

  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    Diziler series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.347,47

  • Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film

    Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance

    Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL3.968,27

  • Havana beyond the Ruins

    Cultural Mappings after 1989

    In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures. Cuba’s capital has experienced little construction since the ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.129,31

  • Trumpets in the Mountains

    Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba

    Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.506,35

  • Territories of Conflict

    Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies

    Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for ... Daha fazla okuyun

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  • "Quinqui" Film in Spain

    Peripheries of Society and Myths on the Margins

    The recent interest in quinqui film and the uprooted people of the Transition who were relegated to the background or were forgotten has recovered throughout the twenty-first century. The dissemination of the subgenre, paraphernalia and fetishism that surrounds these films, as well as the social groups they represented, have had their maximum exponent in exhibitions around the time that they were ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL1.508,27

  • Cuban Counterpoints

    The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

    Diziler series Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies
    While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL2.103,23

  • The Darkening Nation

    Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina

    ile Ignacio Aguiló ...
    Diziler series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed during this period of financial meltdown and national emergency, examining in particular how the neoliberal crisis led to the critical self-questioning of the dominant ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL3.063,59

  • Brazil under Construction

    Fiction and Public Works

    ile S. Beal ...
    Diziler series New Directions in Latino American Cultures
    Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood. ... Daha fazla okuyun

    TL2.799,59