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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784381803321

Autore

García Canclini Néstor

Titolo

Hybrid cultures [[electronic resource] ] : strategies for entering and leaving modernity / / Néstor García Canclini ; translated by Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. López ; foreword by Renato Rosaldo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8537-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

980.03/3

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Postmodernism

Arts and society - Latin America

Popular culture - Latin America

Latin America Civilization 20th century

Latin America Cultural policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Culturas híbridas : estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword Renato Rosaldo; Acknowledgments; Entrance; 1 From Utopias to the Market; 2 Latin American Contradictions: Modernism without Modernization?; 3 Artists, Middlemen, and the Public: To Innovate or to Democratize?; 4 The Future of the Past; 5 The Staging of the Popular; 6 The Popular and Popularity: From Political to Theatrical Representation; 7 Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers; Exit; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traditions not quite past and modernity not yet wholly present make a curious hybrid of Latin American culture. In this thought-provoking book, a leading Mexican intellectual explores the theoretical and practical challenges presented by such a hybrid state. In particular, Néstor García Canclini questions whether Latin America can move toward democracy and compete in a global marketplace without giving in to temptations of elitism or losing its cultural identity.