Cultures of the city : mediating identities in urban Latin/o America /
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| Imprint: | Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | vi, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pitt Latin American series Pitt Latin American series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8297231 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Mediating Urban Identities
- Imagining Urban Identities
- Havana in the Nueva Trova Repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso
- Last Snapshots/Take 2: Personal and Collective Shipwrecks in Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires and the Literary Construction of Urban Space
- Body Art and the Remaking of Mexico City
- Urban Identities and Cultures on the Periphery
- Feasting on Latina/o Labor in Multicultural Los Angeles
- Mediating the Public Sphere in Latina/o Detroit: Heart and Margin of an Embattled Metropolis
- Textual Revisions of Identity: Nostalgia and Modernity in Asunción
- Northeastern Images: Recife and Salvador in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
- Performance and the Ritualization of Urban Identities
- Performing Citizenship: Migration, Andean Festivals, and Public Spaces in Lima
- The TransMilenio Experience: Mass Transit in Bogotá and National Urban Identity
- The Feria del Libro and the Ritualization of Cultural Belonging in Havana
- Zapatistas in Mexico City and the Performance of Ethnic Citizenship
- Afterword: The Dialectics of Identity in the Latin/o American Global City
- Notes
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index
