| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 4 |
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Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Introduction / George Yúdice, Jean Franco, and Juan Flores -- Postmodernity and transnational capitalism in Latin America / George Yúdice -- Cultural reconversion / Néstor García Canclini -- Liberalism and authority: the case of Mario Vargas Llosa / William Rowe -- Going public: reinhabiting the private / Jean Franco -- "The other side of the process": racial formation in contemporary Brazil / Howard Winant -- Theater after the revolution: refiguring the political in Cuba and Nicaragua / Randy Martin -- Bad poetry, worse society / Iumna M. Simon and Vinícius Dantas -- Cultural redemocratization: Argentina, 1978-89 / Kathleen Newman -- Cortijo's revenge: new mappings of Puerto Rican culture / Juan Flores -- Interview with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto: the chicano movement in multicultural/multinational society |
| Summary |
""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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Privatization -- Social aspects -- Latin America
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Intercultural communication -- Social aspects -- Latin America
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Culture diffusion -- Latin America
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Cultural policy
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Culture diffusion
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Intercultural communication -- Social aspects
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Privatization -- Social aspects
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Kulturkrise
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Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Cultuur.
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Acculturatie.
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Geschichte (1900-1990)
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Cultural policy
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| Subject |
Latin America
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Hispanoamerika
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Lateinamerika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yúdice, George
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Flores, Juan
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Franco, Jean
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| ISBN |
9780816683758 |
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0816683751 |
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