Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America write by Mabel Moraña. This book was released on 2010. Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Latin America's political and cultural upheavals in recent years are in large measure attributable to a flourishing renaissance of knowledge production and innovation - intellectual, cultural, literary, grassroots, and artistic projects that have exploded from a multiplicity of social settings and in new media, new movements, and new political expressions. Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America captures these unfolding processes and cultural politics through a comparative lens examining both historical precursors and contemporary dynamics. Prominent Latin American and Latin Americanist scholars and activists engage here key themes of transformation and the paradoxes of ambiguity and uncertainty, the dilemmas and challenges presented by durable structures of inequality and coloniality, and the intense, sometimes violent struggles to redefine the future in this key world region. This work offers an inter-disciplinary tour de force, combining perspectives from history, literature, anthropology, linguistics, politics, and law, and will be an indispensable source for those who want to capture - in all of its plural complexity - the past and the future of cultural and intellectual shifts transforming the Americas."--Publisher's description.
Intellectuals in Latin America
Intellectuals in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intellectuals in Latin America write by Nicola Miller. This book was released on 1999-05-01. Intellectuals in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition
Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition write by Janet Burke. This book was released on 2007-02-28. Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century who were engaged in articulating and examining the problems that Spanish and Portuguese America faced in the one hundred years after securing independence. The selections represent all major regions of Latin America. Although these regions differ significantly with regard to indigenous background, geography, climate, and available resources, their people confronted the common problems that surround the intractable challenges of statecraft and nation building: issues of race, international relations, economics, education, and self-understanding. Burke and Humphrey provide fresh, accessible translations of key works, a majority of which appear for the first time in English; a General Introduction that sets the works in historical and intellectual context; detailed headnotes for each selection; a Guide to Themes; and bibliographic references.
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing Modernity in Latin America write by N. Miller. This book was released on 2007-12-25. Reinventing Modernity in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.
In the Shadow of the State
In the Shadow of the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Shadow of the State write by Nicola Miller. This book was released on 1999. In the Shadow of the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carlos Fuentes once observed that to be a Spanish American intellectual was to fulfill the roles, by default, of "a tribune, a member of parliament, a labor leader, a journalist, a redeemer of his society." Such statements reflect the view that the region's intellectuals have often acted as substitutes for the structures of a civil society. An alternative view casts Spanish American intellectuals in a far more reactionary role. Here, it is suggested that the elaboration of inert popular stereotypes such as the stoic Indian and the heroic gaucho has resulted in an infinite postponement of authentic cultural identity, and a perpetuation, aided by intellectuals, of a social order in which popular demands were either ignored or repressed. In the context of this debate, this book explores the roles played by intellectuals in the creation of popular national identities in twentieth-century Spanish America, and seeks to identify the factors which lie behind two such contrasting evaluations of their contribution. Ranging across the intellectual centers of Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru, it illustrates vividly the diversity and evolution of intellectual life in the region. Particular attention is paid to the idea of peripheral modernity and its influence on intellectual activity, as well as to the contributions made by intellectuals to the three major strands in debates on popular national identity: bi-culturalism, anti-imperialism and history.
