Latin American Identities After 1980

Herausgeber: Yovanovich, Gordana; Huras, Amy

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Produktbeschreibung

Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based case studies with the Latin American tradition of the essay, particularly in areas where the discourse of the establishment does not match political, social, and cultural realities and where it is difficult to uncover the purposely covert. This study of the cultural and social Latin America begins with an interpretation of the new Pax Americana, designed in the 1980s by the North in agreement with the Southern elites. As the agreement ties the hands of national governments and establishes new regional and global strategies, a pan-Latin American identity is emphasized over individual national identities. The multi-faceted impacts and effects of globalization in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and the Caribbean are examined, with an emphasis on social change, the transnationalization and commodification of Latin American and Caribbean arts and the adaptation of cultural identities in a globalized context as understood by Latin American authors writing from transnational perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781554581832
• ISBN-10: 1554581834
• Artikelnr.: 27010900

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Latin American Identities After 1980, edited by Gordana Yovanovich and Amy
Huras
Introduction Gordana Yovanovich
Part One
Latin America and the New Pax Americana Jorge Nef and Alejandra Roncallo
Cultural Resilience and Political Transformation in Bolivia Susan Healey
Globalization and Indígenas: The Alto Balsas Nahuas Frans J. Schryer
Language Shift, Maintenance and Revitalization: Quichua in an Era of
Globalization Rosario Gómez
Afro-Brazilian Women's Identities and Activism: National and Transnational
Discourse Jessica Franklin
Legal Creolization, ``Permanent Exceptionalism'' and Caribbean Sojourners'
Truths Adrian Smith
Part Two
Cuban Culture at the Eye of the Globalizing Hurricane: The Case of Nueva
Trova Norman Cheadle
From Pablo Neruda to Luciana Souza: Latin America as Poetic-Musical Space
Maria L. Figueredo
The Transculturation of Capoeira: Brazilian, Canadian and Caribbean
Interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art Janelle Joseph
Kcho's La regata: Political or Poetic Installation? Lee L'Clerc
Collective Memory of Cultural Trauma in Peru: Efforts to Move from Blame to
Reconciliation Jennifer Martino
Part Three
Individualism and Human Rights in Antonio Skármeta's Match Ball Gordana
Yovanovich
Collective Memory and the Borderlands in Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras
Americanas Pablo Ramírez
From Exile To the Pandilla: The Construction of The Hispanic-Canadian
Masculine Subject in Cobro Revertido and Côte-Des-Nègres Stephen Henighan
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Norman Cheadle is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures at Laurentian University. Cheadle is the author of The
Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal (2000), co-editor of
Canadian Cultural Exchange: Translation and Transculturation (2007)
published by Wilfrid Laurier UP, and author of refereed articles such as
"Twentieth-Century homo bonaerense: The Buenos Aires 'Man-in-the-Street,'"
"'El Aleph' y Adán Buenosayres. El flaco, el gordo y el populismo
argentino," "Los intelectuales y el caso Pinochet: canto de cisne de una
figura centenaria?" and "Rememorando la historia decimonónica desde La
tierra del fuego de Sylvia Iparraguirre."
Maria L. Figueredo is associate professor in the Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics at York University. Figueredo is already
considered a Canadian specialist in the relationships between literature
and music in their specific socio-political contexts. Her doctoral
dissertation (1999) initiated work in this area and led to the publication
of her book, Poesía y canto popular: Su convergencia en el siglo
XX.Uruguay, 1960-1985. This trained musician and academic has also
published articles such as: "Rhythm Nation: Negotiating Notions of Place,
Belonging and History in the Process of Setting Poetry to Song," "Latin
American Song as an Alternative Voice in the New World Order," "El eterno
retorno entre la poesía y la música popular," and "Entre la poesía oral y
la escrita: la canción y la cultura literaria."
Jessica Franklin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political
Science at McMaster University and is currently completing her dissertation
entitled "Building From and Moving Beyond the State: The National and
Transnational Dimensions of Afro-Brazilian Women's Activism." Her research
has been supported by the Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research
Exchange Grant (2007).
Rosario Gómez is associate professor of Spanish linguistics at the
University of Guelph. Gómez is a co-author of a book on CD-ROM entitled El
mundo hispano (Toronto: Canadian Academy of the Arts, 2008), and her
doctoral thesis has been adapted into a book that is forthcoming from
Iberoamericana / Vervuert (Frankfurt and Madrid). She is the author of two
articles dealing with pedagogy and the history of the Spanish language. She
recently published a testing database to accompany the linguistics textbook
An Introduction to Language, 4th ed. (Nelson Education, 2010). Gómez is
also the coordinator of the Corpus of Spoken Spanish of Urban centers of
Ecuador, PRESEEA (Proyecto Para Estudio Sociolingüístico del Español de
España y América),University of Alcalá in Spain.
Susan Healey received her Ph.D. from the University of Guelph.Her
dissertation traces the rise of the MAS in Bolivia through the lenses of
counter-hegemony, organized dissent, and alternative notions of
development. Healy lived and worked in Bolivia from 1989 to 1995. She has
published articles in Latin American Perspectives and the Canadian Journal
of Development Studies, a chapter in Lifelong Citizenship Learning,
Participatory Democracy and Social Change (OISE/University of Toronto), as
well as book reviews and newspaper op-eds on political change in Latin
America. In 2004 Healy was awarded the Kari Polanyi-Levitt Prize by the
Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID) for
the best graduate student essay in international development Studies.Healy
has taught courses in political sociology, geography, and international
political economy at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of
Waterloo.
Stephen Henighan is a professor of Spanish at the University of Guelph and
a recognized Canadian fiction writer. He was a finalist for the Governor
General's Literary Award in the category of English Non-Fiction for his
debateprovoking book When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian
Writing. Henighan is the author of eleven books and numerous articles,
reviews and conference presentations. Some of his books are: The Streets of
Winter, Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family,North of Tourism,
and Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel
Ángel Asturias. Henighan has also produced the first Canadian textbook for
teaching Spanish, and he has translated books from Portuguese to English.
His own work has been translated to other languages.
Amy Huras received her B.A. from the University of Guelph, her M.Phil. from
the University of Cambridge, and she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University
of Toronto. Research for her Ph.D. thesis has been funded by SSHRC.
Janelle Joseph is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. In the
area of sports, culture, and transnationality, Joseph has published the
following articles: "The Logical Paradox of the Cultural Commodity: Selling
an Authentic Afro-Brazilian Martial Art in Canada," in the Sociology of
Sport Journal, and "Going to Brazil: Transnational and Corporeal Movement
of a Canadian-Brazilian Martial Arts Community," in Global Networks. Joseph
is the winner of the Sport Information Resource Centre's 2005 Community
Research Award for her essay "A Perfect Match: Brazilian Martial Arts and
the Canadian Multiculturalism Act."
Lee L'Clerc is assistant professor at the University of Guelph. He is a
midcareer Canadian painter with a Ph.D. in literature from the University
of Toronto. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions both
nationally and internationally, and has published "(Homo)Posing the Flesh
in Virgilio Piñera's La carne de René" in Revista Canadiense de Estudios
Hispánicos and "Saint Sebastian: A Body Caught Up in Representation" for
the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. L'Clerc is presently working on a book on
Cuban art and literature.
Jennifer Martino received her M.A. from the interdisciplinary Latin
American and Caribbean graduate program at the University of Guelph. She
has worked for different NGOs in Haiti, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Peru.
Jorge Nef is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph and
a Professor of Government and International Affairs at the University of
South Florida where he was Director of Latin American and Caribbean
Studies. He has published, edited, and co-edited sixteen books and special
issues of journals. His most recent publications include: The Democratic
Challenge (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), Capital, Power, and
Inequality in Latin America (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008),
Managing Development in a Global Context (also published by
Palgrave/Macmillan of the UK), and Inter American Relations in an Era of
Globalization: Beyond Unilateralism? (Toronto: De Sitter 2007). Nef is also
author or co-author of 115 academic articles in books and journals. Nef's
poetry is published in his book, La región perdida (Madrid: Betania 1997)
and in numerous literary anthologies.
Pablo Ramírezis associate professor at the University of Guelph, where he
teaches nineteenth-century American literature and US Latina/o Studies. He
received his Ph.D. in American Cultures from the University of Michigan and
has published essays and chapters on Chicana/o literature in The Canadian
Review of American Studies, Frontieres, Journal of American Studies, and
Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction. He also has forthcoming
articles and chapters in Aztlÿn: Journal of Chicana/o Studies and Bordered
Sexualities. He is currently working on a project titled, "Consent of the
Conquered: Mexican-Anglo Romances and Contractual Freedom in
Nineteenth-Century America."
Alejandra Roncallo teaches at York University and at the University of
Toronto- Mississauga, and has also taught at the Universities of Western
Ontario and Ryerson. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of the Americas, and has published articles in the Canadian Journal of
Development Studies and Hechos del Callejón-a journal of the United Nations
Development Program of Colombia-and a chapter in Between the Lines. She
holds an M.A. in Public and International Affairs from the University of
Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University.
Frans J. Schryer is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at the University of Guelph. Schryer is the author of four
books, of which two deal with Mexico: The Rancheros of Pisaflores (Univ. of
Toronto Press, 1980) and Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico
(Princeton Univ. Press, 1990).He is also the author of seventeen refereed
articles and seven book chapters, including "Native Peoples of Central
Mexico since Independence" in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples
of the Americas, Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2 (1999).
Dragan Sekaric Shex received a university degree from the School of
Architecture in Sarajevo but drifted from architecture to painting. In Rome
he took advanced studies in fine art. After this period of learning and
artistic experimentation in Italy, he moved to Montreal.Currently Shex
works from his studio in Toronto. He has exhibited across the Mediterranean
countries of Europe, in Cuba, the US, and in fine galleries in Montreal and
Toronto.He has received numerous professional awards and won first prize in
several prestigious art contests.
Adrian Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Comparative Law,
Faculty of Law at McGill University. Smith is the author of one scholarly
article, "Legal Consciousness and Resistance in Caribbean Seasonal Workers"
(Canadian Journal of Law and Society 20.2, 2005), two chapters in books:
"Transnational Labour Law, Global Governance & the Caribbean" and "A
Transnational Turn for/from 'the Worst': Labour Law, Globalization and the
Wretched of the Earth", and three book reviews.
Gordana Yovanovich is professor of Latin American literature at the
University of Guelph. She is the author of two books: Play and the
Picaresque: Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball, and Julio
Cortázar's Character Mosaic, both published by the University of Toronto
Press, and editor of The New World Order: Corporate Agenda and Parallel
Reality published by McGill-Queen's University Press. She has also
published articles such as: "Intelligence Agenda and the Need for
Constructive Intellectual Intervention in the New World Order", "Play as a
Mode of Empowerment for Women and as a Model for Poetics in the Early
Poetry of Nicolás Guillén," and "The Role of Women in Julio Cortázar's
Rayuela."