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Colombian Theatre in the Vortex
This book chronicles three decades of social and political disintegration in a nation marked by violence, paradox, and hyperbole, a country both blessed and cursed by its wealth of natural resources, its culture, and its strategic location in the western hemisphere. The plays (Soldiers [C. J. Reyes et al.]; Old Baldy [Jairo Nino]; Lucky Strike [Santiago Garcia]; Roadhouse [Teatro La Candelaria]; Pilot Project [Enrique Buenaventura]; Femina Ludens [Nohora Ayala et al.]; and The Orgy [Enrique Buenaventura]) reveal the historical, economic, and social roots of Colombia's tragic circumstances. They are vehicles of critical analysis for making sense of both the causes and the consequences of the violence, as they examine the role of the army, the roots of the drug wars, the situation of women and victims of conflict, and the poisoning of a common ethos. The translations and introductory notes make the works and their subjects equally accessible for staging in the theater and for readings and discussion by groups interested in Latin American Studies. Judith A. Weiss is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University in Canada.
Inca Music Reimagined
In Inca Music Reimagined, author Vera Wolkowicz argues that Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Argentine composers in the early twentieth century consciously featured indigenous signifiers in their operas in order to produce a self-consciously Latin American art.
Media Travels
Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin America to Indigenous film and media from the US and Canada. Media studies courses, particularly introductory courses, are often narrowly focused on US and Western European canons. Instructors for introductory med...
Latin America
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat—mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current “Latin Ame...
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each new novel stimulates popular and scholarly reviews in periodicals from Mexico City and Buenos Aires to Paris and New York. Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work. The range and diversity of this critical view are remarkable and reflect similar characteristics in the creative work of Carlos Fuentes, a man of formidable intellectual energy and curiosity. The whole of Fuen...
The ^AInvention of Latin American Music
The Invention of Latin American Music reconstructs the history of Latin American music as a genre, focusing on the intellectual, musicological, and diplomatic forces that shaped its spread and success across the globe in the 20th century.
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Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers
A literary and commercial explosion in the 1960s gave Latin-American literature instant recognition worldwide as evidenced in the publication of novels such as Carlos Fuentess La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz), and Gabriel Garcia Marquezs Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). These works, among others, reflect the local conditions of Latin-American countries, but also narrate themes which transcend the concerns of any one country and appeal to a broader audience. The Latin American authors contained in this volume hail from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Central and South America, and Portuguese-speaking Brazil. They have produced exciting, creative, innovative and imaginative works that propose theoretical issues which pertain to reading, writing, spoken language, translation, history and fiction. 30 entries include: Ciro Alegria, Miguel Angel Asturias, Mario Benedetti, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo and Luisa Valenzuela.
