Latin Americans

Author : Heather J. Allen,Andrew R. Reynolds
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816537716

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Latin American Textualities by Heather J. Allen,Andrew R. Reynolds Pdf

Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems.\ Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gather a wide range of scholars to investigate the region’s textual scholarship. Contributors offer engaging examples of not just artifacts but also the contexts in which the texts are used. Topics include Guamán Poma’s library, the effect of sound recordings on writing in Argentina, Sudamericana Publishing House’s contribution to the Latin American literary boom, and Argentine science fiction. Latin American Textualities provides new paths to reading Latin American history, culture, and literatures. Contributors: Heather J. Allen Catalina Andrango-Walker Sam Carter Sara Castro-Klarén Edward King Rebecca Kosick Silvia Kurlat Ares Walther Maradiegue Clayton McCarl José Enrique Navarro Andrew R. Reynolds George Antony Thomas Zac Zimmer

Author : Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552382097

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Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures by Elizabeth Montes Garcés Pdf

This collection explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcés has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history. The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.

Author : Rubén Gallo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421413464

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Proust's Latin Americans by Rubén Gallo Pdf

Proust's Latin Americans will be of interest to scholars of modernism, French literature, Proust studies, gender studies, and Latin American studies.

Author : Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda,Amy Reed-Sandoval
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816542732

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Latin American Immigration Ethics by Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda,Amy Reed-Sandoval Pdf

Latin American Immigration Ethics advances philosophical conversations and debates about immigration by theorizing migration from the Latin American and Latinx context.

Author : Maristella Svampa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1788530926

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Development in Latin America by Maristella Svampa Pdf

In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development -- the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system -- in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable outcomes. She focuses on the phenomenon of "neoextractivism," the combination of the global advance of resource-seeking extractive capital (foreign investments in the extraction of natural resources) and the commodities consensus (export of raw materials), among both neoliberal and progressive governments -- analyzing their common elements as well as their differences. Svampa explores the complex dynamics of socio-environmental conflict associated with neoextractivism, as well as what she refers to as the "eco-territorial turn." Svampa's analysis includes both the ecological and gender dimensions of the global and regional capitalist development process. Maristella Svampa is an Argentine sociologist, writer and activist. She is a researcher at Conicet (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Buenos Aires Province). She participates in the Permanent Alternative to Development Group in Latin America and coordinates several groups concerned with ecological themes in Argentina. Maristella Svampa has written several books about political and social problems in Latin America.

Author : Hernan Galperin,Judith Mariscal
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552503423

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Digital Poverty by Hernan Galperin,Judith Mariscal Pdf

Examines the problem of inedequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies. Shows how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the region.

Author : Ray Suarez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101626979

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Latino Americans by Ray Suarez Pdf

Chronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country. Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. Author and acclaimed journalist Ray Suarez explores the lives of Latino American men and women over a five-hundred-year span, encompassing an epic range of experiences from the early European settlements to Manifest Destiny; the Wild West to the Cold War; the Great Depression to globalization; and the Spanish-American War to the civil rights movement. Latino Americans shares the personal struggles and successes of immigrants, poets, soldiers, and many others—individuals who have made an impact on history, as well as those whose extraordinary lives shed light on the times in which they lived, and the legacy of this incredible American people.

Author : Pablo Policzer
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean S
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1552389065

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The Politics of Violence in Latin America by Pablo Policzer Pdf

Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing the problem of violence to Latin America's colonial past or its conflictual contemporary politics. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume argues that violence is often rooted more in contingent outcomes than in deeply embedded structures. Addressing topics ranging from the root sources of violence in Haiti to kidnapping in Colombia, from the role of property rights in patterns of violence to the challenges of peacebuilding, The Politics of Violence in Latin America is an essential step towards understanding the causes and contexts of violence-and changing the mechanisms that produce it.

Author : Jorge Catala Carrasco,Paulo Drinot,James Scorer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822981589

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Comics and Memory in Latin America by Jorge Catala Carrasco,Paulo Drinot,James Scorer Pdf

Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquín Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Héctor G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. They also highlight the unique ability of this art and literary form to succinctly render memory. In sum, this volume offers in-depth analysis of an understudied, yet key literary genre in Latin American memory studies and documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Author : Alex Latta,Hannah Wittman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857457486

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Environment and Citizenship in Latin America by Alex Latta,Hannah Wittman Pdf

Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.

Author : John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333910

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A Living Past by John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua Pdf

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.

Author : Carlos Rangel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412837576

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The Latin Americans by Carlos Rangel Pdf

Author : Tina Hilgers,Laura Macdonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107193178

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Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean by Tina Hilgers,Laura Macdonald Pdf

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

Author : Eva Salinas
Publisher : We Thought of It
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554513774

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Latin Americans Thought of It by Eva Salinas Pdf

Describes the traditions and innovations that are the result of thousands of years of civilization in Latin America.

Author : Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862315

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Race and Nation in Modern Latin America by Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Pdf

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups. The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.