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With a Foreword by José David SaldÃvar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available for the first time in Englishâand now published with new materialâRamos’s study not only offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history, literature, and nation-building in the modern Latin American context but also takes crucial steps toward the development of a truly comparative inter-American cultural criticism.
With his focus on the nineteenth century, Ramos begins his genealogy of an emerging Latin Americanism with an examination of Argentinean Domingo Sarmiento and Chilean Andrés Bello, representing the âenlightened letradosâ of tradition. In contrast to these âlettered men,â he turns to Cuban journalist, revolutionary, and poet José MartÃ, who, Ramos suggests, inaugurated a new kind of intellectual subject for the Americas. Though tracing Latin American modernity in general, it is the analysis of MartÃâparticularly his work in the United Statesâthat becomes the focal point of Ramos’s study. MartÃ’s confrontation with the unequal modernization of the New World, the dependent status of Latin America, and the contrast between Latin America’s culture of elites and the northern mass culture of commodification are, for Ramos, key elements in understanding the complex Latin American experience of modernity.
Including two new chapters written for this edition, as well as translations of three of MartÃ’s most important works, Divergent Modernities will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand development and modernity across the Americas.
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In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio BenÃtez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, BenÃtez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. BenÃtez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbeanâthe area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politicsâthere emerges an âislandâ of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. BenÃtez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, GarcÃa Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and RodrÃguez Juliá.
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Contemporary Spain: A Handbook
Christopher Ross
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Studying Spanish? Spending a year in Spain? Or maybe going to work there? Then you'll need this handbook of contemporary Spain and the Spanish language. Packed with essential information on politics, the economy, and institutions, it covers the basics that are taken for granted by most Spaniards. Intended for readers without specialist knowledge in any of the subjects concerned, this is a valuable handbook for English-speaking students of Spanish. Each chapter contains a suggested reading list and a Spanish-English glossary in context. Covering Spanish history, power structures and Spanish society, the handbook provides a vast amount of information, geared to students' needs.
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Excellent Guide to Spanish Institutions and Modern History.......2000-01-19
The strength of this book is that it provides a detailed overview of Contemporary Spain in modern context.
Obtaining a copy of this book saves busy people time in finding specific information regarding the legal framework of the Spanish state and institutions, political parties, media, regional subsidiarity, economy, environment, education, social welfare and even law and order.
If you then find you have the time and the need for greater depth, viewing the indispensable list of books for further reading, as suggested by Professor Ross at the back, will provide you with ample choice of information sources.
Ideal for busy people, pressed university or college students on busy overloaded courses, and anyone with an interest in learning more about the way Spain is run.
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This accessible introduction to the exciting field of contemporary Spanish visual culture is the first of its kind. It combines cultural context with close readings of particular works. Going beyond the field of cinema, in which Spain is an acknowledged leader, Smith examines new developments in television, where original and innovative series drama has recently blossomed. He also explores Spanish fashion, where 'classic' design is married to high tech production and distribution. Two aspects of Spanish visual art are considered: the career of Miquel Barceló, global artist and pure painter, and Basque conceptual art which, through photography and installation, puts a new spin on international questions of gender and sexuality. Finally, Contemporary Spanish Culture examines Catalan independent cinema and the most recent work of Spain's best known director, Pedro Almodóvar, who has resurrected a genre long considered dead: the art movie. This innovative new book provides an ideal introduction for undergraduates and will be essential reading for those working in Hispanic studies, cultural studies, and film.
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Critical Passions: Selected Essays (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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Jean Franco’s work as a pathbreaking theorist, cultural critic, and scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Critical Passions is the first volume to gather a wide-ranging selection of Franco’s influential essays.
A key participant in the major debates in Latin American studiesâbeginning with the âboomâ period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernismâFranco is recognized for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. While her principal books are all readily available, Franco’s several dozen articles are dispersed in a variety of periodicals in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Although many of these essays are considered pioneering and classic, they have never before been collected in a single work. In this volume, Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman have organized the essays into four interrelated sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American literature from the âboomâ onward, and the cultural history of Mexico. As a group, these writings demonstrate Franco’s ability to reflect on and judge with equal seriousness all spheres of expression, whether subway graffiti, a fashion manual, or an avant-garde haiku. A bona fide fan of popular and mass media, Franco never allows her critiques to dissolve into the puritanical or reductive; instead, she finds ways to present and debate complex theoretical questions in direct and accessible language.
This volume will draw an extensive readership in Latin American, cultural, and women’s studies.
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The 750 A-Z entries in this new work cover the cultural and political developments throughout Spain, including the culture of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes made since the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975.
Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays which offer an in-depth treatment of major issues. The encyclopedia defines culture in its broadest sense, and encompasses a wide range of subjects, including entries on:
advertising, Antonio Banderas, dance, detective fiction, education, fashion, Antonio Gaudi, golf, journalism, opera, politics, racism, science, sculpture, stock exchanges, tennis, theatre, urbanization, and much more. This volume provides a a comprehensive index, a thematic contents list and annotated suggestions for further reading following the longer articles.
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture is an invaluable resource for students of Spanish or European studies, professionals working in overseas and "hispanophiles" at all levels.
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"Saddling La Gringa": Gatekeeping in Literature by Contemporary Latina Writers (Contributions in Women's Studies)
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Because of their ethnic identity, Latinas sometimes face discrimination in the United States. Latinas are additionally oppressed because of their gender--because they are women, they hold a subordinate position in patriarchal Latino culture. The oppression of Latinas is maintained through various cultural mechanisms, which sustain power relations based on gender. This book gives special attention to the role of female cultural "gatekeepers" in novels by contemporary Latina writers. These gatekeepers enforce and perpetuate patriarchal cultural constraints onto future generations of Latinas. They construct and police female identity, including their own, through the use of idiomatic expressions, epithets, jokes, morality tales, and myths. The volume begins by examining Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing, a work that clearly illustrates the role of gatekeepers in perpetuating gendered power relations. It then turns to the writings of Christina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Rosario Ferre, and Magali Garcia Ramis. Through their highly critical yet loving characterizations of female gatekeepers, these Latina writers suggest a different way of life for Latinas, a feminist way.
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Focusing on the developments over the last twenty years in Spain, this stimulating book contains twenty-eight original essays, by recognized specialists, that offer a new interdisciplinary approach to contemporary Spanish culture and society. Combining overviews and case studies, the essays range widely over a diverse series of topic areas, including race, nationalism and identity, the media, gender and sex, religion, sport, and shopping. By providing students, scholars, and general readers entrance to the key debates and issues involved in contemporary Spanish culture, this volume represents a crucial landmark in the ongoing definition of the new field of Spanish Cultural Studies.
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The Afro-Brazilian Mind: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism
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This multilingual reader brings together literary and cultural critics from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to validate and re-evaluate the legitimacy of Afro-Brazilian studies and culture as a field of academic inquiry worthy of canonical inclusion. The thirty two multifaceted essays adopt an interdisciplinary approach in order to uncover the intellectual nature of Afro-Brazilian cultural production. Issues addressed include race relations, Afro-Atlantic Diaspora, gender, sexuality, identity formation, cultural diversity, performance, and popular culture. Contributors are Kim Butler, Henry Drewal, Anani Dzidzienyo, Steven White, Carolyn Richardson Durham, Joel Zito Araújo, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Cuti (Luiz Silva), Zilá Bernd, Niyi Afolabi, Cheryl Sterling, Emanuelle Oliveira, Bolaji Campbell, Lesley Feracho, Moema Parente Augel, Ronald Augusto, Dawn Duke, Maria Nazareth Fonseca, Eduardo de Assis Duarte, Márcio Barbosa, Manuel García Castellón, Fábio Durão, and John Rex Gadzekpo.
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- Dictionary of Contemporary Spain
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A Dictionary of Contemporary Spain (A Dictionary of Contemporary...)
Sandra Truscott , and
Maria Garcia
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Dictionary of Contemporary Spain.......2007-09-13
I was completely disappointed when I received my copy of this book. Had I read the discription a little better I might have been forewarned that it was a very small and short book. The information in the book, what there was of it, was good; probably 4 to 5 stars, but at $90 + it was a complete rip off. I was expecting a large library type reference book, this one is quite the opposite. I returned the book immediately. Well, I did puruse it a bit first. If money isn't an issue, it is a nice "little" book.
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