Synopses & Reviews
Exploring Latin American cultural identities from multiple vantage points, this collection addresses such phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender, and examines the fundamentally new ways in which individuals relate to and identify with one another. The process of inquiry engages with questions of location, time, and place to underscore the tremendous changes occurring in Latin American due to globalization. Framed within two key periods of massive immigration affecting Latin America, these essays show how the migratory of people of distinct nationalities and cultures has a tremendous impact on the regions they come to occupy, and consequently, on the way Latin Americans have portrayed themselves in cultural products such as film and literature. With contribution from preeminent scholars in Latin American cultural studies, this collection demonstrates the pervasive effects of globalization on the Latin American cultural scene through the creative expressions of its playwrights, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers. Many of the authors included in this collection have experienced first-hand the difficult process of relocation and adaptation, and are thus able to offer unique perspectives on identity, language, and culture.
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Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garces has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history. The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu. With contributions by: Nayibe Bermudez Barrios Norman Cheadle Rita De Grandis Elizabeth Montes Garces Paola Hernandez Myriam Osorio Claudine Potvin Mercedes Rowinsky-Guerts Catherine Den Tandt Luis Torres Richard Young"
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Literature and other forms of cultural expression provide unprecedented insight into perpetually changing notions of Latin American identity in this fascinating collection that explores a wide breadth of genres and topics.
Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garc s has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history.
The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.
Synopsis
This collection explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcandeacute;s has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin Americaandrsquo;s cultural history. The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.
About the Author
Elizabeth Montes Garcandeacute;s is an associate professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. Her area of expertise is Latin American womens writing. She has published El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representaciandoacute;n en la novelandiacute;stica de Fanny Buitrago (1997), and several articles on Latin American female writers. She was the secretary of the Canadian Association of Hispanists from 2003 to 2005, and has been very involved in organizing the 39th, 40th, and 41st edition of the CAH congress, in addition to presenting papers at numerous conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.