On Edge : The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.
Title:
On Edge : The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.
Author:
Yudice, George.
ISBN:
9780816683758
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Series:
Cultural Politics
Contents:
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 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
"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 Edge is where the reader will be, anxiously at the margins of Latin America's elite centers, throughout this excellent collection of essays on cultural and political innovations. It is a most welcome hands-on guide to some of the post-modern challenges to projects of national modernization, a cultural analogue to studies of new political movements." Doris Sommer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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