Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World - From the Conquest to Globalisation (Paperback)

Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity. * Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day * This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagun's Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture. * The book s interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology * A broad geographical scope covers Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and the United States. * The book makes an important theoretical contribution to the debates on identity through its innovative approaches, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study * The essays are written by specialists of different nationalities based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Argentina, providing an international cutting-edge scholarship

General

Imprint:	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	July 2011
Authors:	E Kefala
Dimensions:	228 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-4443-3907-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
LSN:	1-4443-3907-9
Barcode:	9781444339079

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