Hybrid Cultures
Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity
Nestor Garcia Canclini (Author), Renato Rosaldo (Foreword by), Christopher L. Chiappari (Translated by), Silvia L. Lopez (Translated by)
9780816646685
Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2005
344 pages
22.9 x 14.9 x 2 cm, 0.488 kg
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.
Contents Introduction Foreword Renato Rosaldo Entrance From Utopias to the Market Latin American Contradictions: Modernism without Modernization? Artists, Middlemen, and the Public: To Innovate or to Democratize? The Future of the Past The Staging of the Popular The Popular and Popularity: From Political to Theatrical Representation Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers Exit Bibliography Index
