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The Latin American cultural studies reader / edited by Ana del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo.

Contributor(s): Sarto, Ana del, 1967- | Ríos, Alicia, 1958- | Trigo, Abril
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004Description: 818 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822333406 (pbk.); 9780822333401 (pbk.); 0822333287 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822333289 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Latin America -- Civilization | Culture -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 980 LOC classification: F1408.3 | .L38 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-804) and index.
Contents:
Traditions and fractures in Latin American cultural studies / Alicia Ríos -- Literature and underdevelopment / Antonio Candido -- Excerpts from The Americas and civilization: "Evolutionary acceleration and historical incorporation," "The genuine and the spurious," and "National ethnic typology" / Darcy Ribeiro -- Caliban: notes toward a discussion of culture in our America / Roberto Fernández Retamar -- Indigenismo and heterogeneous literatures: their double sociocultural statute / Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Mestizaje, transculturation, heterogeneity / Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Literature and culture / Angel Rama -- The 1980s: foundations of Latin American cultural studies / Ana del Sarto -- Plotting women: popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America / Jean Franco -- Would so many millions of people not end up speaking English? The North American culture and Mexico / Carlos Monsiváis -- Brazilian culture: nationalism by elimination / Roberto Schwarz -- Intellectuals: scission or mimesis? / Beatriz Sarlo -- The movable center: geographical discourses and territoriality during the expansion of the Spanish empire / Walter Mignolo -- Notes on modernity and postmodernity in Latin American culture / José Joaquín Brunner -- A nocturnal map to explore a new field / Jesús Martín-Barbero -- Cultural studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: anthropological and sociological perspectives in Latin America / Néstor García Canclini --
The 1990s: practices and polemics within Latin American cultural studies / Abril Trigo -- Political disfranchisement / Irene Silverblatt -- On citizenship: the grammatology of the body-politic / Beatriz González Stephan -- Male hybrids in the world of soccer / Eduardo Archetti -- The past as the future: a reactive utopia in Buenos Aires / Adrián Gorelik and Graciela Silvestri -- Tears and desire: women and melodrama in the "old" Mexican cinema / Ana M. López -- The unbearable lightness of history: bestseller scripts for our times / Francine Masiello -- Legitimacy and lifestyles / Renato Ortiz -- The transnational making of representations of gender, ethnicity, and culture: indigenous peoples' organizations at the Smithsonian Instituion's festival / Daniel Mato -- The production of local public spheres: community radio stations / Gustavo A. Remedi -- Mimicry and the uncanny in Caribbean discourse / Román de la Campa -- Of Zapatismo: reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection / José Rabasa -- Tentative exchanges: Tijuana prostitutes and their clients / Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís -- The Latino imaginary: meanings of community and identity / Juan Flores -- Writing in reverse: on the project of the Latin American subaltern studies group / John Beverley -- The boom of the subaltern / Mabel Moraña -- Latin American intellectuals in a post-hegemonic era / George Yúdice -- Local/global Latin Americanisms: "theoretical babbling," apropos Roberto Fernández Retamar -- Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: academic knowledge, theoretical practice, and cultural criticism / Nelly Richard -- Irruption and conservation: some conditions of Latin Americanist critique / Alberto Moreiras -- The cultural studies movement and Latin America: an overview / Neil Larsen -- Hybridity in a transnation frame: Latin Americanist and postcolonial perspectives on cultural studies / John Kraniauskas -- Mestizaje and hybridity: the risks fo metaphors--notes / Antonio Cornejo Polar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-804) and index.

Traditions and fractures in Latin American cultural studies / Alicia Ríos -- Literature and underdevelopment / Antonio Candido -- Excerpts from The Americas and civilization: "Evolutionary acceleration and historical incorporation," "The genuine and the spurious," and "National ethnic typology" / Darcy Ribeiro -- Caliban: notes toward a discussion of culture in our America / Roberto Fernández Retamar -- Indigenismo and heterogeneous literatures: their double sociocultural statute / Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Mestizaje, transculturation, heterogeneity / Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Literature and culture / Angel Rama -- The 1980s: foundations of Latin American cultural studies / Ana del Sarto -- Plotting women: popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America / Jean Franco -- Would so many millions of people not end up speaking English? The North American culture and Mexico / Carlos Monsiváis -- Brazilian culture: nationalism by elimination / Roberto Schwarz -- Intellectuals: scission or mimesis? / Beatriz Sarlo -- The movable center: geographical discourses and territoriality during the expansion of the Spanish empire / Walter Mignolo -- Notes on modernity and postmodernity in Latin American culture / José Joaquín Brunner -- A nocturnal map to explore a new field / Jesús Martín-Barbero -- Cultural studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: anthropological and sociological perspectives in Latin America / Néstor García Canclini --

The 1990s: practices and polemics within Latin American cultural studies / Abril Trigo -- Political disfranchisement / Irene Silverblatt -- On citizenship: the grammatology of the body-politic / Beatriz González Stephan -- Male hybrids in the world of soccer / Eduardo Archetti -- The past as the future: a reactive utopia in Buenos Aires / Adrián Gorelik and Graciela Silvestri -- Tears and desire: women and melodrama in the "old" Mexican cinema / Ana M. López -- The unbearable lightness of history: bestseller scripts for our times / Francine Masiello -- Legitimacy and lifestyles / Renato Ortiz -- The transnational making of representations of gender, ethnicity, and culture: indigenous peoples' organizations at the Smithsonian Instituion's festival / Daniel Mato -- The production of local public spheres: community radio stations / Gustavo A. Remedi -- Mimicry and the uncanny in Caribbean discourse / Román de la Campa -- Of Zapatismo: reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection / José Rabasa -- Tentative exchanges: Tijuana prostitutes and their clients / Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís -- The Latino imaginary: meanings of community and identity / Juan Flores -- Writing in reverse: on the project of the Latin American subaltern studies group / John Beverley -- The boom of the subaltern / Mabel Moraña -- Latin American intellectuals in a post-hegemonic era / George Yúdice -- Local/global Latin Americanisms: "theoretical babbling," apropos Roberto Fernández Retamar -- Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: academic knowledge, theoretical practice, and cultural criticism / Nelly Richard -- Irruption and conservation: some conditions of Latin Americanist critique / Alberto Moreiras -- The cultural studies movement and Latin America: an overview / Neil Larsen -- Hybridity in a transnation frame: Latin Americanist and postcolonial perspectives on cultural studies / John Kraniauskas -- Mestizaje and hybridity: the risks fo metaphors--notes / Antonio Cornejo Polar.

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