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Buenos
Aires
Perspectives
on the City and Cultural Production
by David William
Foster
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Displaying the power of cultural
studies to construct and analyze urban life, this book captures the breath and
soul of one of Latin America's most dynamic cosmopolitan centers.
Since the 19th century, Buenos Aires, the largest city of Spanish-speaking South
America, has been one of the continent's major cultural centers. Until now,
however, no work explored the multileveled integration of the city and cultural
production. David Foster analyzes a standard aspect of Argentine culture like
the tango, but with attention to gender issues; he looks at theater in terms of
its interpretation of Argentine social life; the "dirty realism" of
Enrique Medina provides a focus for marginal, subaltern, and suppressed sectors
of the urban landscape; and gender emerges again in his discussion of
photography (highlighting the work of Sara Facio, one of the city's great
feminist artists), of Jewish ethnicity and immigrant culture, and of lesbian and
gay identity in public spaces.
Combining an eclectic dimension in its research (Foster is willing to analyze
such ephemera as slogans, catch-phrases, and the decoration of public
transportation) with a breadth of scope (the book encompasses history,
literature, anthropology, architecture, and cultural politics), Buenos Aires
will engage the reader in the imagination of one of the most vibrant cities of
the world.
David William Foster is chair of the Department of Languages
and Literatures and Regents' Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Women's
Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Violence in
Argentine Literature: Cultural Responses to Tyranny and of Sexual
Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing.
1998. 240 pp. 6 X 9.
30 b&w photos, 5
drawings, bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1613-4
Cloth, $55.00
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"Up-to-date, informed, and often provocative, this title is a blueprint for cultural studies of interest to researchers/faculty and armchair travelers alike." --
Choice
"Provides a novel glimpse into some of the texts which both form and inform the cultural geography of the dominant political, economic and cultural center of Argentina."--
H-Net Book Review
"Full of sharp insights and
surprising departures. It is an unprecedented study. . . . The
analyses are carried out with a risk-taking boldness."--Naomi
Lindstrom, University of Texas, Austin
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