{"product_id":"improvised-continent-pan-americanism-and-cultural-exchange-hardback-9780812249422","title":"Improvised Continent; Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange (Hardback) 9780812249422","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Cándida Smith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812249422\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 27 illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Count Richard Candida Smith among the best of those scholars doing transnational history. \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant investigation of U.S. and Latin American intellectuals and artists who formed networks that the United States used for its cultural diplomacy. But as Candida Smith deftly shows, there was an irony in cultural imperialism, as these intellectuals and artists served not only to teach U.S. audiences about the rest of the Americas. They also served as critics of American society and offered up a distinctly robust liberalism rooted in the utopia of pan-Americanism.\" (Andrew Hartman, author of \u003ci\u003eA War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Poets, painters, policymakers, and others wrestle over pan-American hopes and disappointments in Richard Cándida Smith's illuminating and thoughtful work. Spanning the twentieth century, and ranging across diverse sources in four languages, \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e brings new cultural and intellectual depth to the history of Latin American and U.S. relations.\" (Brooke L. Blower, Boston University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard CÁndida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and major cultural institutions, brought many of the most important artists and writers of Latin America to live and work in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to focus on cultural exchange inside the United States and how Americans responded to Latin American writers and artists. Moving masterfully between the history of ideas, biography, institutional history and politics, and international relations, and engaging works in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, CÁndida Smith synthesizes over seventy years of Pan-American cultural activity in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e The stories behind Diego Rivera's murals, the movies of Alejandro G. IÑÁrritu, the poetry of Gabriela Mistral, the photography of Genevieve Naylor, and the novels of Carlos Fuentes-these works and artists, along with many others, challenged U.S. citizens about their place in the world and about the kind of global relations the country's interests could allow. \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e provides a profoundly compassionate portrayal of the Latin American artists and writers who believed their practices might create a more humane world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559201304856,"sku":"9780812249422","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/improvised-continent-pan-americanism-and-cultural-exchange-hardback-9780812249422","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}