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Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

By Nestor Garcia Canclini

Book information

Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0816646686, 9780816646685
LCC
F1414.2 .G36513 2005
Open Library ID
OL22735988M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19555481 bytes)
Edition
Expanded
Pages
328\342
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade. Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong.

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