The Latin American Urban Cronica - Between Literature And Mass Culture

Informationen zum Autor By Esperança Bielsa Klappentext The Latin American Urban Cróoacute;nica explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of present processes of globalization, Esperan_a Bielsa examines the contemporary cr-nica in Mexico City and Guayaquil and its role in representing unofficial culture in its widest sense. Zusammenfassung Explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of globalization! this book examines the cr-nica in Mexico City and Guayaquil and its role in representing unofficial culture in its widest sense. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 High and Low: The Cultural Field in Europe and Latin America Chapter 3 The Cronica: A Hybrid Genre from the Contact Zone Chapter 4 The City in Fragments Chapter 5 Writing the City Chapter 6 Emiliano Perez Cruz: The Cronica as a Testimony of Collective Life in a Peripheral Community of Mexico City Chapter 7 The City Behind its Mask: The Vision of Guayaquil in Jorge Martillo's Cronicas Chapter 8 Reading Cronicas Chapter 9 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Esperana Bielsa, Esperanca Bielsa, Esperança Bielsa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2006
• EAN: 9780739113769
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1376-9
• No. of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries