Latin American identities after 1980 / Gordana Yovanovich and Amy Huras, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huras, Amy, 1983-

Yovanovich, Gordana, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Latin America.

Globalization.

Latin America--Intellectual life--21st century.

Latin America.

Latin America--History--1980-.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.

Latin America--Social conditions--1982-.

Latin America--Civilization--1948-.

Latin America--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 electronic text (316 p.) : digital file.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010).

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based case studies with the Latin American tradition of the essay, particularly in areas where the discourse of the establishment does not match political, social, and cultural realities and where it is difficult to uncover the purposely covert.This study of the cultural and social Latin America begins with an interpretation of the new Pax Americana, designed in the 1980s by the North in agreement with the Southern elites. As the agreement ties the hands of national governments and establishes new regional and global strategies, a pan-Latin American identity is emphasized over individual national identities. The multi-faceted impacts and effects of globalization in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and the Caribbean are examined, with an emphasis on social change, the transnationalization and commodification of Latin American and Caribbean arts and the adaptation of cultural identities in a globalized context as understood by Latin American authors writing from transnational perspectives.

Contents:

Part 2. Cuban Culture at the Eye of the Globalizing Hurricane: The Case of Nueva Trova / Norman Cheadle

From Pablo Neruda to Luciana Souza: Latin America as Poetic-Musical Space / Maria L. Figueredo

The Transculturation of Capoeira: Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean Interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art / Janelle Joseph

Kcho's La regata: Political or Poetic Installation? / Lee L'Clerc

Collective Memory of Cultural Trauma in Peru: Efforts to Move from Blame to Reconciliation / Jennifer Martino

Part 3. Individualism and Human Rights in Antonio Skarmeta's Match Ball / Gordana Yovanovich

Collective Memory and the Borderlands in Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas / Pablo Ramirez)

From Exile to the Pandilla: The Construction of the Hispanic-Canadian Masculine Subject in Cobro Revertido and Cote-des-Negres / Stephen Henighan.

Part 1. Latin America and the New Pax Americana / Jorge Nef and Alejandra Roncallo

Cultural Resilience and Political Transformation in Bolivia / Susan Healey

Globalization and Indigenas: The Alto Balsas Nahuas / Frans J. Schryer

Language Shift, Maintenance, and Revitalization: Quichua in an Era of Globalization / Rosario Gomez

Afro-Brazilian Women's Identities and Activism: National and Transnational Discourse / Jessica Franklin

Legal Creolization, "Permanent Exceptionalism," and Caribbean Sojourners' Truths / Adrian Smith

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613810953

9781282233218

1282233211

9781554582136

155458213X

9781554583003

1554583004

OCLC:

437081471