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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451511303321

Titolo

On edge [[electronic resource] ] : the crisis of contemporary Latin American culture / / George Yúdice, Jean Franco, Juan Flores, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992

ISBN

0-8166-8375-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

YúdiceGeorge

FloresJuan <1943->

FrancoJean

Disciplina

306.4/098

Soggetti

Privatization - Social aspects - Latin America

Intercultural communication - Social aspects - Latin America

Culture diffusion - Latin America

Electronic books.

Latin America Cultural policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Postmodernity and Transnational Capitalism in Latin America; Cultural Reconversion; Liberalism and Authority: The Case of Mario Vargas Llosa; Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private; ""The Other Side of the Process"": Racial Formation in Contemporary Brazil; Theater after the Revolution: Refiguring the Political in Cuba and Nicaragua; Bad Poetry, Worse Society; Cultural Redemocratization: Argentina, 1978-89; Cortijo's Revenge: New Mappings of Puerto Rican Culture; Interview with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto: The Chicano Movement in a Multicultural/ Multinational Society

ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

""On the Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture lays out the parameters of the issues: ethnicity, race, oppositional culture (popular), liberal democracy, the discrediting of the Left, and the women's movement. In total, this collection provides a good overview of significant issues in Latin American thought."" Journal of Communication. ""These essays by authors from a wide range of fields and nationalities explore problems and possibilities that the



postmodernism debate poses to the reconfigurations of cultural identity in different Latin American contexts."" Diacritics. ""On