The specter of races : Latin American anthropology and literature between the wars /

Reviewing their essays, scientific publications, dictionaries, novels, poetry, and visual arts, the author traces the cultural study of Latin America back to these interdisciplinary discussions about the meaning of race and culture in Latin America, discussions that continue to provoke us today.

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Main Author: Birkenmaier, Anke (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016
Series:New World studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Fernando Ortiz and the Meanings of raza
  • 2 Paul Rivet's Museum Matrix and the "Drama of Inadaptation"
  • 3 Jacques Roumain, Haiti, and the Margins of Latin America
  • 4 Gilberto Freyre and the Science of Culture
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.