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Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary history and recent theoretical accounts of sight by writers, including Paul Virilio and Teresa de Lauretis.
This reference combines commentary and explanation with a detailed chronology to illuminate the period of 1987 to 1993 in Central America. It offers a succinct overview of pacification and democracy in the region, including criticism of the structuralist approaches like those of Chomsky and Petras.
Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America’s popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent.Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America’s cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty.In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.
Challenging the stereotypical images of the dominating male and the subservient woman, this book addresses the variety of representations of gender in Latin American culture. The essays present ethnographic material from Mexico city to the highlands of Ecuador.
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