The Routledge History of Latin American Culture

Carlos Manuel Salomon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138902565
• eBook ISBN: 9781317449294
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: History

The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process of cultural hybridity to show how the people of Latin America have participated in the making of their own history.

The selections from an interdisciplinary group of scholars range widely across the geographic spectrum of the Latin American world and forms of cultural production. Exploring the means and meanings of cultural production, the essays illustrate the myriad ways in which cultural output illuminates political and social themes in Latin American history.

From religion to food, from political resistance to artistic representation, this handbook showcases the work of scholars from the forefront of Latin American cultural history, creating an essential reference volume for any scholar of modern Latin America.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Cultura en Llamas
• 1 Indigenous Cosmology and Spanish Conquest
• 2 Andean Identity and Historical Agency
• 3 The Trajectory of the African Michelina: Identities, Slavery, and Post-Abolition at the Parish of Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 4 Caste, Race, and the Formation of Latin American Cultural Imaginaries
• 5 African Flavor in Latin American Music
• 6 The Politics of Enunciation: Indigenista and Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
• 7 Resistances in Caribbean Literature (1930s to the Present)
• 8 Art, Revolution, and Indigenous Subjects
• 9 Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies in Mexico (History and Evolution): Academy, Literature, Art, Theater, and Cultural Practices
• 10 New Latin American Revolutionary Cinema
• 11 Amerindian Foodways of the Other Borderlands
• 12 Popular and Rural Schooling in Modern Latin America
• 13 Political Cultures of Social Movements
• 14 The Mapuche and “El Compañero Allende”: A Legacy of Social Justice, Historical Contradictions, and Cultural Debates
• 15 Catholic Social Movements Face Modernity
• 16 The Energetic Body: Machines, Organisms, and Social Thermodynamics in Colombia’s Path to Modernity
• 17 Feminism in the Southern Cone: The Periodical Press for and by Women
• 18 Feminisms, Genders, and Indigenous Women in Latin America
• 19 The Feminist Debate in Mexico
• 20 Cultural Identity in Latin America: Toward a Cooperative Understanding of Our Past
• 21 Migrant Transnational Engagements 2000–2015
• 22 For Breath to Return to Love: B/ordering Violence and the War on Drugs
• 23 The Intimate Life of the Pocha: A Genealogy of the Self-Ironic Turn in Chican@ Culture
• 24 Queen of las Fiestas Patrias and Other Stories: Oral History, Memory, and Latinx Culture
• Index