The Latin American urban crónica : between literature and mass culture / Esperança Bielsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bielsa, Esperança, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American prose literature.

Journalism--Latin America--History--20th century.

Journalism.

Popular culture--Latin America.

Popular culture.

City and town life.

History.

Latin America.

City and town life--Latin America.

Physical Description:

xv, 239 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

The Latin American Urban Cronica explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America, Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of globalization, Esperanca Bielsa examines the contemporary cronica in Mexico City and Guayaquil and its role in representing unofficial culture in its widest sense. This unique work is the product of the study of numerous texts and interviews with prominent writers of cronica and incorporates extensive research on reception. Essentially interdisciplinary in its approach. The Latin American Urban Cronica is one of the very few publications about this fascinating and understudied mixed genre of the area between journalism and literature, and the first to systematically situate the Latin American cronica within social and cultural theory.

Contents:

1 High and Low: The Cultural Field in Europe and Latin America 1

2 The Cronica: A Hybrid Genre From the Contact Zone 31

3 The City in Fragments 51

4 Writing the City 83

5 Emiliano Perez Cruz: The Cronica as a Testimony of Collective Life in a Peripheral Community of Mexico City 107

6 The City Behind its Mask: The Vision of Guayaquil in Jorge Martillo's Cronicas 129

7 Reading Cronicas 155

Appendix A A Selection of Cronicas From the Press of Mexico City and Guayaquil 177

Appendix B Individual Profiles of Cronica Readers 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

ISBN:

0739113755

0739113763

OCLC:

64427406

Publisher Number:

9780739113752

9780739113769