Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies

The individual essays are well written and complex. The volume provides a tour of where and what the discipline is, along the way providing many examples. It serves as an insightful and flavorful guide to current issues of cultural discourses in Latin America. Edna M. Rodriguez-Mangual, The Americas

Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London, UK Richard Young is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

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 Adis: 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 Pern: 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 tambin lloran: Mexican telenovelas and the geographical imagination 13 Local(izing) images: Montevideos 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 Sanjinss double-take 24 Buenos Aires and the narration of urban spaces and practices References Index