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On edge : the crisis of contemporary Latin American culture / George Yudice, Jean Franco, Juan Flores, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 4.
- Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privatization--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Privatization.
- Intercultural communication--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Intercultural communication.
- Culture diffusion--Latin America.
- Culture diffusion.
- Latin America--Cultural policy.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- 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
- ContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8375-1
- OCLC:
- 476093040
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