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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828960503321

Titolo

Cultures of the city : mediating identities in urban Latin/o America / / edited by Richard Young and Amanda Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8229-7763-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Pitt Latin American Series

Disciplina

307.76097

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Social conditions

Sociology, Urban - Latin America

Group identity - Latin America

Latin America Social conditions

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Havana in the Nueva trova repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso / Robin Moore -- Last snapshots/take 2 : personal and collective shipwrecks in Buenos Aires / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Buenos Aires and the literary construction of urban space / Richard Young -- Body art and the remaking of Mexico City / Anny Brooksbank-Jones -- Feasting on Latina/o labor in multicultural Los Angeles / Rodolfo D. Torres and Juan R. Buriel -- Mediating the public sphere in Latina/o Detroit : heart and margin of an embattled metropolis / Catherine L. Benamou -- Textual revisions of identity : nostalgia and modernity in Asunción / Amanda Holmes -- Northeastern images : Recife and Salvador in contemporary Brazilian cinema / Angela Prysthon -- Performing citizenship : migration, Andean festivals, and public spaces in Lima / Gisela Cánepa -- The TransMilenio experience : mass transit in Bogotá and national urban identity / Hector Fernández l'Hoeste -- The Feria del Libro and the ritualization of cultural belonging in Havana / Antoni Kapcia and Par Kumaraswami -- Zapatistas in Mexico City and the performance of ethnic citizenship / Andrea Noble -- Afterword : The dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city / Abril Trigo.