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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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386141503316

Autore

Roberts Lewes <1596-1640.>

Titolo

The treasure of traffike, or, A discourse of forraigne trade [[electronic resource] ] : wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a commonwealth or kingdome, by the skilfull merchant, and by a well ordered commerce and regular traffike / / by Lewes Roberts .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne ..., 1641

Descrizione fisica

1 v. (various pagings)

Soggetti

Great Britain Commerce Early works to 1800

Great Britain Commercial policy Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0158