Salvadoran Imaginaries - Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption

Informationen zum Autor  CECILIA M. RIVAS is assistant professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Klappentext Cecilia M. Rivas takes us on a journey through twenty-first century El Salvador and to the diverse range of sites where the nation's post war identity is being forged. Combining field ethnography with media research, Rivas deftly toggles between the physical spaces where the new El Salvador is starting to emerge and the virtual spaces where Salvadoran identity is being imagined, including newspapers, literature, and digital media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Imaginaries of Transnationalism 1. Tracing the Borderless in "Departamento 15" 2. The Desperate Images 3. Vega's Disgust 4. Exporting Voices: Aspirations and Fluency in the Call Center 5. "Heart of the City": Life and Spaces of Consumption in San Salvador Conclusion: Renewing Narratives of Connection and Distance Notes  Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Cecilia M Rivas, Cecilia M. Rivas
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780813564616
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6461-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories