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Author : Lila Cole McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chilean fiction
ISBN : UCR:31210022793382
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132702510
Author : Kim Beauchesne,Alessandra Santos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Utopias
ISBN : 1349287849
"The present volume explores the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today. With an interdisciplinary approach, the texts included discuss the notion of a utopian impulse in literature, music, performance, cinema, visual arts, critical theory, cultural studies, and political science. Among the many questions the book grapples with are how the utopian impulse is reconfigured over time, especially in new cultural fields and situations, and how Latin American utopias should be contextualized in the so-called global era"--
Author : Rachel Randall
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498555142
This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between “nature” and “culture,” which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower.
Author : Patrick S. Barrett,Daniel Chavez,César A. Rodríguez Garavito
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131673456
Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Author : K. Beauchesne,A. Santos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339613
An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author : Jean-François Lejeune
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984896
This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities -- the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America. Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Santiago, Rio, Tijuana, and Quito are just some of the subjects of this diverse collection. How have desires to create modern societies shaped these cities, leading to both architectural masterworks (by the likes of Luis Barragn, Juan O'Gorman, Lcio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx, Carlos Ral Villanueva, and Lina Bo Bardi) and the most shocking favelas? How have they grappled with concepts of national identity, their colonial history, and the continued demands of a globalized economy? Lavishly illustrated, Cruelty and Utopia features the work of such leading scholars as Carlos Fuentes, Edward Burian, Lauro Cavalcanti, Fernando Oayrzn, Roberto Segre, and Eduardo Subirats, along with artwork ranging from colonial paintings to stills from Chantal Akerman's film From the Other Side. Also included is a revised translation of Spanish King Philip II's influential planning treatise of 1573, the "Laws of the Indies," which did so much to define the form of the Latin American city.
Author : Gesine Müller,Mariano Siskind
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110641134
From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.
Author : Diamela Eltit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015037850883
Ana spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt.'As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622946
Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.
Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317260349
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487375
This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. Its emphasis is on the paradigm transition from the purportedly homogeneous to the heterogeneous.
Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311305
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
Author : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín,Gerd Schönwälder
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745330631
A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980s.
