Imagination Beyond Nation

Latin American Popular Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Can scholarly pursuit of soap operas and folk art actually reveal a national imagination? This innovative collection features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in Argentina, and ceramics in Peru. In examining these popular arts, the scholars gathered here ask the same broad questions: what precisely is a national culture at the level of the popular? The national idea in Latin America emerges from these pages as a problematic, divided one, worth sustained attention in the field of culture studies. Many different arts come forth in all their richness and vitality, compelling us to look, listen, and understand.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-03-04
Mått150 x 230 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePitt Latin American Series
Antal sidor328
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822956860

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It is inordinately refreshing to read these essays. They are original and provocative.... Perhaps the singlemost original contribution is the essays' relationship to questions of nationness. In a field that is often absurdly tied to the idea and preservation of some kind of threatened or precarious national essence perceived as embodied in various objects and popular culture practices, these essays expand and problematize the idea of nationness while sustaining its possibility.