Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pitt Latin American Series)
Editorial Reviews
Ana M. L-pez, Tulane University
"It is inordinately refreshing to read these essays. They are original and provocative but their true import lies in their cohesiveness and how they establish a dialogue in support of the general thesis despite their vastly different subject matter and approaches. Perhaps the singlemost original contribution is the essays' relationship to questions of nationess. In a field that is often absurdly tied to the idea and preservation of some kind of threatened or precarious national essence perceived as embodied in various objects and popular culture practices, these essays, expand and problematize the idea of nationess while sustaining its possibility."
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Book Description
A collection that the study of popular culture in Latin American is worthy of care and refletion by scholars. Popular culture is fascinating, but how much does it tell us about the country in which it's found? Can scholarly pursuit of soap operas and folk art actually reveal a national imagination? This innovative collection explores both the practices of popular culture in Latin America - from tangos to telenovelas - and the discipline that studies them. It is the first collection in English to do so. Imagination Beyond Nation features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in Argentina, and ceramics in Peru. Some of these, like tango, are familiar art forms. Others, such as Peruvian cholo art, will be new to many readers.
Contributors: Hctor D. Fernndez L'Hoeste, Geor original contribution is the essays' relationship to questions of nationess. In a field that is often absurdly tied to the idea and preservation of some kind of threatened or precarious national essence perceived as embodied in various objects and popular culture practices, these essays, expand and problematize the idea of nationess while sustaining its possibility." - Ana M. L-pez, Tulane Universityty Times; Milagros Zapata Swerdlow, Westminster College; and the editors.
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Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pitt Latin American Series)
Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pitt Latin American Series),Eva Bueno,Terry Caesar,University of Pittsburgh Press,082294085X,Anthropology - Cultural,Latin America,Popular Culture,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - Social Theory
Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pitt Latin American Series)
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