Urban Chroniclers in Modern 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 Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America write by Viviane Mahieux. This book was released on 2013-11-06. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mário de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century.
The Latin American Urban Crónica
The Latin American Urban Crónica - 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 The Latin American Urban Crónica write by Esperança Bielsa. This book was released on 2006. The Latin American Urban Crónica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Latin American Urban Cr nica 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, Esperan a Bielsa examines the contemporary cr nica 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 cr nica and also incorporates extensive research on reception. Essentially interdisciplinary in its approach, The Latin American Urban Cr nica 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 cr nica within social and cultural theory.
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century - 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 Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century write by D. Rodgers. This book was released on 2012-10-10. Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research
Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research - 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 Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research write by Alejandro Portes. This book was released on 1976. Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Through the Kaleidoscope
Through the Kaleidoscope - 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 Through the Kaleidoscope write by Vivian Schelling. This book was released on 2000. Through the Kaleidoscope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernity in Latin America is defined above all by its multi-layered, kaleidoscopic quality. Reminiscent of Octavio Paz's labyrinth, it is a modernity which has accommodated a piling-on of new traditions to old, a blending of external cultures with local, and of high cultures with more popular ones—mixes which allowed a rich and celebratory avant-garde movement, for example, to emerge in the 1920s, and prompted the explosive growth of cities like Rio de Janeiro. Many such cultural (as well as technological) innovations have occurred without equivalent changes in social and political life, however, and so the region has also been at the mercy of what might be termed an uneven development in many of its civic institutions. In this prestigious volume of original essays, many of the best writers on the region are brought together to examine the nature and manifestations of a specifically Latin American modernity. Beatriz Sarlo and Nicolau Sevcenko write about Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo in an exploration of twentieth century urban experience and shifting patterns of migration and immigration; Renato Ortiz and Ana Lopez look at mass media and the ways in which radio, television and cinema have shaped modernity; Jose Jorge de Carvalho, Jose de Souza Martins and Nelson Manrique address questions of religion, politics, ideology and social movements; Gwen Kirkpatrick and Beatriz Rezende explore the intricacies of artistic and literary modernism; and Nestor Canclini and Ruben Oliven open the collection with essays which unravel the many forces – the legacy of slavery, the freedom from an unquestioning faith in development and 'progress', the impact of globalisation – that have given rise to a characteristically hybrid modernity.
