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Late Imperial Culture (Paperback, New)
E.Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, Roman de la Campa; Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Caren Kaplan, …
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to
postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps
crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices
including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and
body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from
those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to
scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited
upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A
diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically
informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the
culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex
history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated
"late"; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is
far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in
the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different
historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman
de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon,
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.
Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the
forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors,
Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, challenge conventional
notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by
historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of
Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of
socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations
of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing
the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of
knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies.
Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will
appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in
postcolonial critique.
Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the
forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors,
Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional
notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by
historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of
Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of
socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations
of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing
the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of
knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies.
Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will
appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in
postcolonial critique.
In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old
divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States,
Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is
acutely reflective of its own experience. Taking the three
migration waves of Cubans to the United States as a historical
background to his own story, the author details the continuing rift
between Havana and Miami and the shaping, in the light of
globalization and post-socialism, of a Cuban national split which
has obvious consequences for both countries.
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