Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pitt Latin American Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082294085X ISBN 13: 9780822940852

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

Synopsis

How much does popular culture tell us about the country in which it is found. This collection of essays explores both the practices of popular culture in Latin America - from tangos to "telenovelas" - and the discipline that studies them. The book 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 ask the same broad questions: what precisely is a national culture at the level of the popular? Is it separate from the state? Can it ever be coherent?

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About the Author

Eva P. Bueno teaches Spanish and comparative literature at Penn State Univ., Dubois. She has published Resisting Boundaries (1995) and essays on Spanish-American and Brazilian literature in MLN, Revista de critica literaria latinoamericana, Sociocriticism

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082294085X
• ISBN 13: 9780822940852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Bueno Eva, Caesar Terry