Latin American Urban Crónica

Between Literature and Mass Culture

AvEsperança Bielsa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

The Latin American Urban Crónica explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of present processes of globalization, Esperança Bielsa examines the contemporary crónica in Mexico City and Guayaquil and its role in representing unofficial culture in its widest sense. This unique work is the product of the study of numerous texts and interviews with the main writers of crónica and also incorporates extensive research on reception.Essentially interdisciplinary in its approach, The Latin American Urban Crónica is one of the very few publications about this fascinating and understudied mixed genre of the area between journalism and literature, and the first to systematically situate the Latin American crónica within social and cultural theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-13
Mått:164 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739113752

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Esperança Bielsa is research fellow at the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick.

Recensioner i media

Bielsa's exploration of the crónica—a unique genre in Latin American culture - both literature and commentary on everyday life—is outstanding. Her lucid description of crónica writers, in particular of how Martillo and Perez Cruz lend a voice to the hidden histories of the cities of Guayquil and Mexico city is beautifully interwoven with a thorough and illuminating analysis of the rich heterogeneity of Latin American culture. This book will appeal to all those interested in the unique mixture of cultures and identities in Latin America.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 High and Low: The Cultural Field in Europe and Latin AmericaChapter 3 The Cronica: A Hybrid Genre from the Contact ZoneChapter 4 The City in FragmentsChapter 5 Writing the CityChapter 6 Emiliano Perez Cruz: The Cronica as a Testimony of Collective Life in a Peripheral Community of Mexico CityChapter 7 The City Behind its Mask: The Vision of Guayaquil in Jorge Martillo's CronicasChapter 8 Reading CronicasChapter 9 Conclusion