{"product_id":"dictionary-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-paperback","title":"Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert McKee Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMonica Szurmuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an essential reference for scholars and students from a wide array of fields represented by Latin American and cultural studies. It provides highly authoritative entries on most of the major topics of the day.\"--Ignacio M. S nchez Prado, author of \u003ci\u003eNaciones Intelectuales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This text represents a fantastic resource as well as an excellent pedagogical tool for the diffusion of the main tenets of cultural studies among students and among scholars who are not specialists in Latin American cultural studies.\"--Ana Del Sarto, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLatin American Cultural Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dictionary is a book to ask questions of. Not only what each word means, but also why some are present and others are absent, and how the presences and the absences are connected. Irwin and Szurmuk's \u003ci\u003eDictionary\u003c\/i\u003e exhaustively registers the sources and lines of development of the studies of culture in Latin America.\"--Nestor Garcia Canclini, writing in \u003ci\u003eEn torno a los estudios culturales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is a fundamental reference for students, pedagogues, and investigators interested in understanding the terminology of the field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis comprehensive volume explains and contextualizes fifty-four key terms and theories, including some general concepts in cultural studies (e.g., body, deconstruction, ideology, postmodernism, power, queer theory) as they relate to research in Latin America, and some specific to the field of Latin American studies (e.g., anthropophagy, deterritorialization, lettered city). Each entry defines the term in question, explains its usages, discusses its etymology and the intellectuals who have made relevant contributions, and provides a bibliography of essential sources. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUniquely suited to the student or scholar struggling with translating cultural studies terminology into non-English language topics of study, originally published in Spanish, and with contributions by many of the field's foremost authorities, this dictionary is poised to become a defining text for Latin American cultural studies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert McKee Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e, chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and professor of Spanish at the University of California-Davis, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMonica Szurmuk\u003c\/b\u003e, research professor at the Institute of Latin American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 398\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618058268979,"sku":"9780813060873","price":58.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Q1FNOStUdGtTQ2ZtTzlzZDJHNEZmZz09.webp?v=1761901040","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dictionary-of-latin-american-cultural-studies-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}