Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies

Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London, UKRichard Young is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

• Part 1 Latin America and cultural studies1 Cultural studies and revolving doors2 Cultural studies and literary criticism at the cross-roads of value3 The place of literature in cultural studies4 Adiós: a national allegory (some reflections on Latin American Cultural Studies)Part 2 Cultural icons5 Contesting the cleric: the intellectual as icon in modern Spanish America6 Cultural myths and Chicana literature: a field in dispute7 Recontextualizing violence as founding myth: La sangre derramada by8 Eva Perón: one woman, several masksPart 3 Culture as spectacle/commodity9 The spectacle of identities: football in Latin America10 Modernity, modernization and melodrama: the bolero in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s11 Stars: mapping the firmament12 Los globalizados también lloran: Mexican telenovelas and the geographical imagination13 Local(izing) images: Montevideo’s televisual praxis14 The young and the damned: street vision in Latin American cinemaPart 4 Culture, hegemony and opposition15 Identity, politics and mestizaje16 Brazilian cinema: reflections on race and representation17 Of silences and exclusions: nation and culture in nineteenth-century Colombia18 Testimonio and its discontents19 Nicomedes Santa Cruz and the vindication of Afro-Peruvian culture20 Queering Latin American popular culturePart 5 Cultural practices21 Food in Latin America22 Capoeira culture: an impertinent non-Western art form23 Mama Coca and the Revolution: Jorge Sanjinés’s double-take24 Buenos Aires and the narration of urban spaces and practicesReferencesIndex

The individual essays are well written and complex. The volume provides a tour of where and what the discipline is, along the way providing many examples. It serves as an insightful and flavorful guide to current issues of cultural discourses in Latin America. Edna M. Rodriguez-Mangual, The Americas