Read as a whole, the essays in Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI provide a fruitful discussion about the need to revise some of the canonical paradigms in Latin American nineteenth-century studies. Included in the collection are new and thought-provoking essays that attempt to go beyond the dichotomies that have characterized the cultural genealogy of the field (civilization vs barbarism, country vs. city, letter vs image, tradition vs. modernity, domestic vs. public). By bringing into the discussion recent developments in cultural studies, authors reexamine the nineteenth-century debate about the construction of nations and subjectivities from a wide range of critical perspectives.

Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas (Literatura y Cultura) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Peluffo, Ana

United States

Editorial A Contracorriente

El tango nacio en los arrabales de un Buenos Aires dinamico y en pleno auge economico, entre immigrantes europeos y criollos todavia en busca de una identidad nacional. Este libro, de Andrea Matallana, ofrece un analisis detallado y bien documentado de esa historia fascinante del tango, desde sus humildes inicios en la capital argentina hasta su universalizacion por el cine de Hollywood en el primer tercio del siglo XX.

El Tango entre dos Américas: La representación del tango en Estados Unidos, 1910-1939 (Literatura y Cultura) (Spanish Edition)

History

Matallana, Andrea

Americas

The essays in this volume analyze three aspects of the history of the Left and Marxism in Latin America: first, the need to discuss the "changing times" in the 21 century and its many and varied ingredients as part of a complex history of intellectual practices and policy proposals that have played for more than a century, the aspirations of broad social changes in Latin American sectors. Second, the acclimatization of Marxism in Latin America as part of a series of discussions with other intellectual movements and at the same time, within a process of intellectual production conditioned by political and institutional factors. And third, the construction of certain views on the historical past as a linchpin of the various policy proposals of the left in Latin America. Together, the texts included in this book contribute to enrich the debates around the relationship between history and politics but also, somehow, to imagine scenarios of growing democracy, justice, and equality in the region.

Militantes, intelectuales y revolucionarios: Ensayos sobre marxismo e historia en América Latina (Literatura y Cultura) (Spanish Edition)

The formation, organization, and accessibility of archives and libraries are critical for the production of historical narratives. They contain the materials with which historians and others reconstruct past events. Archives and libraries, however, not only help produce history, but also have a history of their own. From the early colonial projects to the formation of nation states in Latin America, archives and libraries had been at the center of power struggles and conflicting ideas over patrimony and document preservation that demand historical scrutiny. Much of their collections have been lost on account of accidents or sheer negligence, but there are also cases of recovery and reconstruction that have opened new windows to the past. The essays in this volume explore several fascinating cases of destruction and recovery of archives and libraries and illuminate the ways in which those episodes help shape the writing of historical narratives and the making of collective memories.

From the Ashes of History: Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America (Literatura y Cultura)

The introduction and eight chapters in English and Spanish that make up "Teorizando las literaturas indigenas contemporaneas" examine the textual production of indigenous authorship. The authors start from the nineties and problematize the relationship between Indigenous People and nation-state in Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Brazil. It is one of the book's suggestions that current indigenous movements and their demands can be best understood through a critique of textual production of its organic intellectuals. While much has been written about the activities of the social movements and current indigenous textual production, there is still the need for a book that contextualizes what has enabled the emergence of a contemporary indigenous literary canon and its relationship to those social movements. This book aims to fill some of these gaps.

Teorizando las literaturas indígenas contemporáneas (Literatura y Cultura) (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

El movimiento obrero y las izquierdas son parte de la historia de America Latina. Casi no existen dimensiones de la sociedad, la economia, la politica, la cultura o el campo intelectual de la mayoria de los paises del subcontinente que puedan comprenderse sin la intervencion de alguno de estos dos actores. El enfoque relacional es aqui esencial. Anarquistas, socialistas, comunistas, sindicalistas revolucionarios, trotskistas, maoistas y guevaristas, entre otras, fueron expresiones politico-ideologicas cuya indagacion no puede alcanzarse genuinamente sin un abordaje global de las clases trabajadoras. El presente libro pretende ser una contribucion en este sentido. Constituye una aproximacion a las mas recientes elaboraciones en torno a estos topicos. Reune textos elaborados por calificados investigadores de una decena de paises, ofreciendo, de manera conjunta y comparativa, elementos que aportan a una vision global y renovada sobre el tema a partir de estudios de casos en los cuales se abordan problematicas comunes.

El movimiento obrero y las izquierdas en América Latina: Experiencias de lucha, inserción y organización (Volumen 1) (Historia y Ciencias Sociales) (Spanish Edition)

Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an Anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States. The reader will appreciate the honesty and transparency with which Varese brings out all these experiences. This extraordinary book combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey.

The Art of Memory: An Ethnographer's Journey (Historia y Ciencias Sociales)

Biographies & Memoirs

Varese, Stefano

Professionals & Academics

Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes how the changed relationship between the subject and the material world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and 80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how the objects that survived the violence--items recovered by archeologists from former detention centers, the personal belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer "spectral testimony" about the past.

Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship (Literature and Cultures)

Corbin, Megan

Hay anos que pasan y no dejan huella; otros, en cambio, parecen destinados a marcar indeleblemente la memoria historica y cultural. El ano 1971 es una de esas fechas en que la historia parece adensarse y los escritos, actos y gestos se inscriben en configuraciones paradigmaticas, puesto que pocas veces acontecimientos ocurridos en Cuba tuvieron tanta repercusion internacional. Apelando a un vasto repertorio de fuentes, desde publicaciones del periodo hasta memorias, cartas y estudios recientes, el autor ha reconstruido vividamente para nosotros la cronica de un ano (y, con el, de una epoca estremecida, sobre todo, por el llamado caso Padilla) memorable en acontecimientos y consecuencias. Un esmerado trabajo investigativo respalda este libro que, no obstante, puede leerse de un tiron, como una novela, y que tiene el merito de ser un estudio exhaustivo y a la vez dejar abierto un espacio que invita al debate.

El 71: Anatomía de una crisis (Historia y Ciencias Sociales) (Spanish Edition)

Fornet, Jorge

Neruda: De 1904 a 1936 (Spanish Edition)

Concha, Jaime

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