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Informationen zum Autor Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos and Abril Trigo, eds. Klappentext Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies. Zusammenfassung Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems! topics! and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix General Introduction / Abril Trigo 1 I. Forerunners Introduction / Alicia Rios Traditions and Fractures in Latin American Cultural Studies 15 Literature and Underdevelopment / Antonio Candido 35 Excerpts from The Americas and Civilization: “Evolutionary Acceleration and Historical Incorporation, “The Genuine and the Spurious,” and “National Ethnic Typology” / Darcy Ribeiro 58 Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our Americas/Roberto Fernandez Retamar 83 Indigenismo and Heterogeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute / Antonio Cornejo Polar 100 Mestizaje, Transculturation, Heterogeneity / Antonio Cornejo Polar 116 Literature and Culture / Angel Rama 120 II. Foundations Introduction / Ana Del Sarto The 1980s: Foundations of Latin American Cultural Studies 153 Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and Latin America / Jean Franco 183 Would So Many Millions of People Not End Up Speaking English? The North American Culture and Mexico / Carlos Monsivais 203 Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination / Roberto Schwarz 233 Intellectuals: Scission or Mimesis? / Beatriz Sarlo 250 The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire / Walter Mignolo 262 Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture / Jose Joaquin Brunner 291 A Nocturnal Map to Explore a New Field / Jesus Martin-Barbero 310 Cultural Studies from the 1980s-1990s: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Latin America / Nestor Garcia Canclini 329 III. Practices Introduction / Abril Trigo The 1990s: Practices and Polemics within Latin American Cultural Studies 347 Political Disenfranchisement / Irene Silverblatt 375 On Citizenship: The Grammatology of the Body-Politic / Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan 384 Male Hybrids in the World of Soccer / Eduardo Archetti 406 The Past as the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires / Adrian Corelik and Graciela Silvestri 427 Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the “Old” Mexican Cinema / Ana M. Lopez 441 The Unbearable Lightness of History: Bestseller Scripts for Our Times / Francine Masiello 459 Legitimacy and Lifestyles / Renato Ortiz 474 The Transnational Making of Representations of Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture: Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations at the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival / Daniel Mato 498 The Production of Local Public Spheres: Community Radio Stations / Gustavo A. Remedi 513 Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse / Romn De La Campa 535 Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in Subaltern Insurrection / John Rabasa 561 Tentative Exchanges: Tijuana Prostitutes and Their Clients / Debra A. Castillo, Maria Gudelia Rangel, Gomez and Armando Rosas Solis 584 The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity / Juan Flores 606 IV. Positions and Polemics Writing in Reverse: On the Project of Latin American Subaltern Studies Group / John Beverly 623 The Boom of the Subaltern / Mabel Morana 643 Latin American Intellectuals in a Post-Hegemonic Era / George Yudice 655 Local/Global Latin Americanisms: “Theoretical Babbling” apropos Roberto Fernan...
