New approaches to Latin American studies : culture and power / edited by Juan Poblete.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poblete, Juan, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).

Hispanic Americans.

Latin America--Study and teaching (Higher).

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xiv, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present. Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts. Questions posited include: Why are turns so crucial? How did they alter the shape or direction of the field? What new questions, objects, or problems did they contribute? What were or are their limitations? What did they displace or prevent us from considering? Among the turns included are: memory, transnational, popular culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies, transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and cultural studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Memory Turn / Michael J. Lazzara Lazzara, Michael J. 14

2 The Transnational Turn / Juan Poblete Poblete, Juan 32

3 The Popular Culture Turn / Pablo Alabarces (Translated Joanna Meadvin) Alabarces, Pablo, (Translated Joanna Meadvin) 50

4 The Ethical Turn / Erin Graff Zivin Zivin, Erin Graff 65

5 The Subalternist Turn / Gareth Williams Williams, Gareth 80

6 The Cultural Studies Turn / Mabel Moraña (Translated Robert Cavooris) Moraña, Mabel, (Translated Robert Cavooris) 95

7 The Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Translated Robert Cavooris) Maldonado-Torres, Nelson, (Translated Robert Cavooris) 111

8 The Indigenous Studies Turn / Nicole Fabricant Fabricant, Nicole, Nancy Postero Postero, Nancy 128

9 The Performance Turn / Angela Marino Marino, Angela 145

10 Turning to Feminisms / Sonia E. Alvarez Alvarez, Sonia E., Claudia de Lima Costa Costa, Claudia de Lima 161

11 The Turn of reconstruction / Alberto Moreiras Moreiras, Alberto 179

12 The Cultural Policy Turn / Ana Wortman (Translated Juan Poblete) Wortman, Ana, (Translated Juan Poblete) 194

13 The Transatlantic Turn / Bécquer Seguín Seguín, Bécquer 206

14 The Gender and Sexuality Turn / Robert McKee Irwin Irwin, Robert McKee, Mónica Szurmuk Szurmuk, Mónica 223

15 The Affect Turn / Laura Podalsky Podalsky, Laura 237

16 The Pesthegemonic Turn / Abraham Acosta Acosta, Abraham 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: New approaches to Latin American studies

ISBN:

9781138067974

1138067970

9781138067967

1138067962

OCLC:

985447369