Hybrid cultures : strategies for entering and leaving modernity / Nestor Garcia Canclini ; translated by Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. Lopez ; foreword by Renato Rosaldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Canclini, Néstor.

Standardized Title:

Culturas híbridas. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Postmodernism.

Arts and society--Latin America.

Popular culture--Latin America.

Latin America--Civilization--20th century.

Latin America--Cultural policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traditions not quite past and modernity not yet wholly present make a curious hybrid of Latin American culture. In this thought-provoking book, a leading Mexican intellectual explores the theoretical and practical challenges presented by such a hybrid state. In particular, Néstor García Canclini questions whether Latin America can move toward democracy and compete in a global marketplace without giving in to temptations of elitism or losing its cultural identity.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword Renato Rosaldo; Acknowledgments; Entrance; 1 From Utopias to the Market; 2 Latin American Contradictions: Modernism without Modernization?; 3 Artists, Middlemen, and the Public: To Innovate or to Democratize?; 4 The Future of the Past; 5 The Staging of the Popular; 6 The Popular and Popularity: From Political to Theatrical Representation; 7 Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers; Exit; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Translation of: Culturas hibridas : estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8537-1

OCLC:

290518678

Publisher Number:

9780816623143