Global Latin America : into the twenty-first century /

This inaugural title in the publisher's new Global Square series is smartly divided into five thematic units. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach with collaborations from experts in their fields. In essays, poems, articles, and interviews, the editors and contributors demonstrate the local and global implications of economic and political transformations, with Latin America at the epicenter of this process. The edited work highlights how popular Latin American culture is a vehicle for the negotiation of identities and geographies of belonging as a Latin American in a globalized world. The topics range from the colonial legacy and the historical underpinnings of globalization, the creation and consumption of Latin American culture, and communities as dynamic entities not bounded by space, to how the digital revolution is reshaping the creation and decentralization of social movements, as well as the function of art in the making of a global Latin America. This volume greatly benefits from an interdisciplinary method, providing readers with a more complete, holistic, nuanced, and complex view of Latin America's understanding of globalization in a local manner, and the role this region plays in the creation of an increasingly connected globalized society. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General collections, and upper-division undergraduates and above. --Carlos A Hernandez, California State University, Northridge