Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures

Cultural Studies

Turning Points series, No.2

About the Book

Exploring Latin American cultural identities from multiple vantage points, this collection addresses such phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender, and examines the fundamentally new ways in which individuals relate to and identify with one another. The process of inquiry engages with questions of location, time and place to underscore the tremendous changes occurring in Latin America due to globalization.
Framed within two key periods of massive immigration affecting Latin America, these essays show how the migratory flow of people of distinct nationalities and cultures has a tremendous impact on the regions they come to occupy, and consequently, on the way Latin Americans have portrayed themselves in cultural products such as film and literature.
With contributions from pre-eminent scholars in Latin American cultural studies, this collection demonstrates the pervasive effects of globalization on the Latin American cultural scene through the creative expressions of its playwrights, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers. Many of the authors included in this collection have experienced first-hand the difficult process of relocation and adaptation, and are thus able to offer unique perspectives on identity, language, and culture.

About the Author

Dr. Elizabeth Montes Garcés is Assistant Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She was the secretary of the Canadian Association of Hispanists from 2003 until 2005, and has been very involved in organizing the 39th, 40th , and 41st edition of the CAH congress, in addition to presenting papers at numerous conferences in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Her area of expertise is Latin American womenís writing.

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