This collection explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcés has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America’s cultural history.
The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 860.9/358098
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- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781552382097 9781552384404
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- PQ7081.A1
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- R316 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (vii, 262 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604388 (OCoLC)752604509 (CaOOCEL)422053
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- TItle Page 4
- Bibliographic Information 5
- Contents 7
- Acknowledgements 8
- 1. Introduction (Elizabeth Montes Garcés) 10
- 2. Cities and Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 22
- Twentieth-Century homo bonaerense: The Buenos Aires “Man-in-the-Street” in Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz and Leopoldo Marechal (Norman Cheadle) 22
- Urban Identity: Buenos Aires and the French Connection (Richard Young) 44
- 3. Exile and Identity 64
- Exile and Community (Luis Torres) 64
- Exile and the Search for Identity (Mercedes Rowinsky-Guerts) 94
- 4. Re-readings of Gender Representation 108
- Retracing Genealogy: Mothers and Daughters in Las andariegas by Albalucía Angel (Myriam Osorio) 108
- Redefining Identities in Elena Garro’s “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas” (Elizabeth Montes Garcés) 126
- Miroslava by Alejandro Pelayo: Negotiated Adaptation and the (Trans)National Gendered Subject (Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios) 142
- 5. Literature and Globalization 176
- The Latin American Intellectual Redefining Identity: Nestor García Canclini’s Latinoamericanos buscando lugar en este siglo (Rita De Grandis) 176
- Sirena Wears Her Sadness like a Beautiful Dress: Literature and Globalization in Latin America (Cathy Den Tandt) 200
- Teatro da Vertigem: Performing Resistance in an Era of Globalization (Paola Hernández) 226
- To Bet or Not to Bet: Gambling Identities (Claudine Potvin) 242
- Notes on Contributors 254
- Index 260
- TURNING POINTS SERIES 273
- Back Cover 274
