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category: Social Science
published: Feb 2007
ISBN:9781552382097
publisher: University of Calgary Press

Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures

edited by Elizabeth Montes Garcés

tagged: emigration & immigration, human geography, popular culture
Description

Literature and other forms of cultural expression provide unprecedented insight into perpetually changing notions of Latin American identity in this fascinating collection that explores a wide breadth of genres and topics.

 

Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcés has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America’s cultural history.

 

The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.

About the Author
Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She is the author of El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago (1997) and of numerous articles published in prestigious journals such as Texto crítico, Letras Femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Anuario de Letras, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. She is editor of Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (University of Calgary Press). She is currently at work on a book on the relationship between body and text in the works of four Latin American female writers: Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa, and Laura Restrepo.
Contributor Notes

Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an associate professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. Her area of expertise is Latin American women’s writing. She has published El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novel’stica de Fanny Buitrago and several articles on Latin American female writers. She was the secretary of the Canadian Association of Hispanists from 2003 to 2005.

With Contributions By: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, Norman Cheadle, Richard Young, Luis Torres, Mercedes Rowinsky-Guerts, Myriam Osorio, Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios, Rita De Grandis, Catherine Den Tandt, Paola Hernández, and Claudine Potvin

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