1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453283403321

Titolo

Beyond the eagle's shadow : new histories of Latin America's cold war / / edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Julio E. Moreno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8263-5369-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Garrard-BurnettVirginia <1957->

LawrenceMark Atwood

MorenoJulio <1970->

Disciplina

980.03

Soggetti

Cold War - Political aspects - Latin America

Cold War - Social aspects - Latin America

Electronic books.

Latin America Politics and government 1948-1980

Latin America Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Coca-Cola, U.S. diplomacy, and the cold war in America's backyard / Julio E. Moreno -- Military factionalism and the consolidation of power in 1960's Guatemala / Giovanni Batz -- Season of storms : the United States and the Caribbean contest for a new political order, 1958-1961 / Aragorn Storm Miller -- Counterrevolution in the Caribbean : the CIA and Cuban commandos in the 1960's  / Jonathan C. Brown --  Don Lázaro rises again : heated rhetoric, cold warfare, and the 1961 Latin American Peace Conference / Renata Keller -- From ploughshares to politics : transformations in rural Brazil during the cold war and its aftermath / Seth Garfield -- The Indian wing : Nicaraguan Indians, Native American activists, and U.S. foreign policy, 1979-1990 / James Jenkins -- Doctors within borders : Cuban medical diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979-1990 / K. Cheasty Anderson -- The other dirty war : cleaning up Buenos Aires during the last dictatorship, 1976-1983 / Jennifer T. Hoyt --  "Restoring all things in Christ" : social



Catholicism, urban workers, and the cold war in Guatemala / Bonar L. Hernández -- The evolution of "narcoterrorism" : from the cold war to the war on drugs / Michelle Denise Reeves -- Afterword : the paradox of Latin American cold war studies / Alan McPherson.

Sommario/riassunto

""This book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Cold War in Latin America by moving beyond simple polarities of East-vs-West. In a series of essays, it looks at ways in which ordinary Latin Americans determined their own history by bending the Cold War to local purposes"--Provided by publisher"--

"The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.-Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor "talons of the eagle," continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of "left" and "right." In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996328046803316

Autore

Mondry Henrietta

Titolo

Exemplary bodies [[electronic resource] ] : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / / by Henrietta Mondry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton, Mass., : Academic Studies Press, c2010

ISBN

1-61811-852-8

1-61811-026-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies

Disciplina

305.892/4047

Soggetti

Jews in popular culture - Russia (Federation)

Human body in popular culture - Russia (Federation)

Body image - Social aspects - Russia (Federation)

Russian literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Russia (Federation) Intellectual life

Russia (Federation) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.

Sommario/riassunto

Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880's explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in



Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880's to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880's, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal "exotic" and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture.