Full Description
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to Latin America. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Latin American history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand.
The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or subregion and a particular issue. Each chapter gives a flavor for the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country yet also draws attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped Latin America as we know it today, and of current issues that have relevance in Latin America and beyond.
Contents
Part One: Overview 1. Overview: Latin America and Its Subregions 2. Latin American Studies: A Multidisciplinary Field Comes of Age Part Two: Fundamentals 3. History 4. Language Part Three: The Global Context 5. Globalization in Latin America: Background 6. Globalization in Latin America: A Tale of Four Countries Part Four: Case Studies 7. Introduction to the Case Studies 8. Change Agents: Women and the Mexican Revolution 9. The Dissident Cosmos: The Andean World Across Cultural Productions 10. The New Latin American Cinema: The Movement and Its Aftermath 11. Magical Realism: The World Within and Beyond Latin America 12. La Malinche: A Look at Gender in the History of Mexico 13. Globalization and Neoliberal Reform: A Case Study of Mexico and Argentina 14. The Socialist Alternative: Cuba and Venezuela 15. Hard-to-Pick Fruit: Transforming the Landscape of Poverty in Brazil
