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A Culture Of Its Own : Taking Latin America Seriously

  • A Culture Of Its Own : Taking Latin America Seriously

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    Mark Falcoff

  • Publication Details

    Book, Transaction, 1998

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  F1414.2 .F35 1998  AVAILABLE

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    • "A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously presents Mark Falcoff’s essays on the region. Many of them are contentious; none of them are dull. He ranges from bilingualism to the cult of Garcia Lorea, from U.S. Cuban relations to Chile’s curious love affair with Germany. On more than one occasion, Falcoff takes aim at American journalism and scholarship, both of which, he argues, have all too often produced a fantasy version of Latin America which reflects our own national narcissism rather than genuine curiosity about the other. His volume will interest Latin American specialists, diplomats, and journalists as well as those general readers who think they are not interested in Latin America - or who only suspect they might be, but don’t know quite where to start."–BOOK JACKET

  • Contents

    • Pt. I. Ideas and Ideologies. 1. Was 1492 a Mistake? Did Columbus Go Too Far? 2. Beyond Bilingualism. 3. The Only Hope for Latin America. 4. Literature and Politics in Latin America. 5. Orphans of Utopia
    • Pt. II. Pictures from an Exhibition. 6. "An aristocrat in the public square": Jose Ortega y Gasset. 7. Victoria Ocampo’s Sur. 8. Garcia Lorca and His Times. 9. Gerald Brenan. 10. Carlos Fuentes Discovers America. 11. The Doleful Legacy of Carlton Beals
    • Pt. III. Cubans, Americans, and Cuban- Americans. 12. U.S.-Cuban Relations: Back to the Beginning. 13. America’s Culture Wars and the Cuban Revolution. 14. The Cuba in Our Mind. 15. The Other Cuba. 16. Why the Latins Still Love Fidel
    • Pt. IV. Argentine Hours. 17. Orange Juice with General Peron: A Memoir. 18. Between Two Fires: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Argentina, 1970-1983. 19. The Falklands Conflict Revisited
    • Pt. V. Latins and Europeans. 20. The Strange Case of Erich Honecker. 21. Franco, Trujillo, and the CIA. 22. Why the Europeans Support the Sandinistas

  • ISBN

    • 1560003618

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