Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies

Abstract

Part 1 Latin America and cultural studies 1 Cultural studies and revolving doors 2 Cultural studies and literary criticism at the cross-roads of value 3 The place of literature in cultural studies 4 AdiA^3s: a national allegory (some reflections on Latin American Cultural Studies) Part 2 Cultural icons 5 Contesting the cleric: the intellectual as icon in modern Spanish America 6 Cultural myths and Chicana literature: a field in dispute 7 Recontextualizing violence as founding myth: La sangre derramada by 8 Eva PerA^3n: one woman, several masks Part 3 Culture as spectacle/commodity 9 The spectacle of identities: football in Latin America 10 Modernity, modernization and melodrama: the bolero in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s 11 Stars: mapping the firmament 12 Los globalizados tambiA(c)n lloran: Mexican telenovelas and the geographical imagination 13 Local(izing) images: Montevideoa (TM)s televisual praxis 14 The young and the damned: street vision in Latin American cinema Part 4 Culture, hegemony and opposition 15 Identity, politics and mestizaje 16 Brazilian cinema: reflections on race and representation 17 Of silences and exclusions: nation and culture in nineteenth-century Colombia 18 Testimonio and its discontents 19 Nicomedes Santa Cruz and the vindication of Afro-Peruvian culture 20 Queering Latin American popular culture Part 5 Cultural practices 21 Food in Latin America 22 Capoeira culture: an impertinent non-Western art form 23 Mama Coca and the Revolution: Jorge SanjinA(c)sa (TM)s double-take 24 Buenos Aires and the narration of urban spaces and practices References Index

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