Between two waters : narratives of transculturation in Latin America

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Label

Between two waters : narratives of transculturation in Latin America

Title remainder

narratives of transculturation in Latin America

Statement of responsibility

Silvia Spitta

Title variation

Between 2 waters

Creator

• Spitta, Silvia, 1956-

Subject

• Acculturation
• Aculturación
• Comunicación intercultural
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Hispanoamerika
• Intercultural communication
• Acculturatie
• Kulturkontakt
• Latin American literature -- History and criticism
• Literatur
• Verhalen
• Interculturele communicatie

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

"Departs from the Cuban Fernando Ortiz's cultural theory of transculturation. Modifies Ortiz, following Angel Rama, to include all of Latin America, not just Cuba, as a culture defined and articulated by transculation processes. Chooses four moments - Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios, extirpation of idolatries, the Cuzco School of Painting, and José María Arguedas - providing interesting discussions of each, relying on existing scholarship. Important here is the project's ambition and the series of works examined. The triumphalist tone of the proponents of transculturation has lately been dampened by forceful critiques of Rama's work and the implicit asymmetry of any transculturative situation. Important resource"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

860.9/98

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ7081

LC item number

.S72 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Summary URI

http://www.loc.gov/hlas