Cultures of the city : mediating identities in urban Latin/o America / edited by Richard Young and Amanda Holmes.

Other author Young, Richard A., 1942-
Other author Holmes, Amanda, 1972-
Format Book
Publication InfoPittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2010.
Descriptionvi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series. ^A223435
Contents Havana in the Nueva trova repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso / Robin Moore -- Last snapshots/take 2 : personal and collective shipwrecks in Buenos Aires / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Buenos Aires and the literary construction of urban space / Richard Young -- Body art and the remaking of Mexico City / Anny Brooksbank-Jones -- Feasting on Latina/o labor in multicultural Los Angeles / Rodolfo D. Torres and Juan R. Buriel -- Mediating the public sphere in Latina/o Detroit : heart and margin of an embattled metropolis / Catherine L. Benamou -- Textual revisions of identity : nostalgia and modernity in Asunción / Amanda Holmes -- Northeastern images : Recife and Salvador in contemporary Brazilian cinema / Angela Prysthon -- Performing citizenship : migration, Andean festivals, and public spaces in Lima / Gisela Cánepa -- The TransMilenio experience : mass transit in Bogotá and national urban identity / Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste -- The Feria del Libro and the ritualization of cultural belonging in Havana / Antoni Kapcia and Par Kumaraswami -- Zapatistas in Mexico City and the performance of ethnic citizenship / Andrea Noble -- Afterword : The dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city / Abril Trigo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.
LCCN 2010031725
ISBN9780822961208 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822961202 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HN110.5.A8 C85 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold