Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899980
Quintijn B. Kat
{"title":"“Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (review)","authors":"Quintijn B. Kat","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.a899980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.a899980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"233 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46505424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899979
Eric D. Carter
{"title":"Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865–1908 by Carlos S. Dimas (review)","authors":"Eric D. Carter","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.a899979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.a899979","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"229 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66431800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899976
Stephen D. Morris
{"title":"Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption & Reform under Democracy by Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor (review)","authors":"Stephen D. Morris","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.a899976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.a899976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"221 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47011054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899975
M. Bonner
{"title":"Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil by Graham Denyer Willis (review)","authors":"M. Bonner","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.a899975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.a899975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"219 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45925831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899971
J. Buchanan
Abstract:Between 2010–20, specialty cafés emerged in Mexico that led to a significant change to café work culture. Using protagonists’ oral accounts, this article examines the rise of specialty café culture in two Mexican cities (Puebla City and Oaxaca City) and how and why specialty coffeeshop owners and baristas participated in this rise. The article argues that specialty café owners and baristas were crucial actors in the emergence of a specialty café culture in Mexico. Subsequently, specialty cafés offered new working conditions for baristas as well as owners. These conditions created jobs of passion, led to job-satisfaction for these urban workers, and facilitated positive service-work experiences. Overall, this paper exposes how specialty cafés grew, why people decided to participate in this growth and how they interpreted their participation in this experience. Moreover, this paper adds to the history and study of coffee by approaching café culture in a coffee-producing country and by prioritising the focus on café workers instead of agricultural labour.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899972
J. Rausch
Abstract:The Tequendama Falls is perhaps the most striking example of Colombia’s diverse natural environment. Created by the Bogotá River, it is a majestic waterfall of 130 meters located in a wooded area of the municipality of Soacha, 32 kilometers southwest of Bogotá. Until the mid-twentieth century it was a popular attraction for both Colombians and foreigners, but after the 1960s, the diversion of the river to generate electricity, as well as its use as a landfill for industrial waste, contaminated the waterfall and devastated its surrounding cloud forest. The object of this work is fivefold: Beginning with a brief review of the development of environmental history of Colombia, it traces the history of the Salto from pre-conquest times to the mid-20th century. It outlines the reasons for its decline; and evaluates the efforts that are being made to restore the site to its former glory. It concludes by placing these efforts within the context of the development of tourism in 21st Colombia.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899970
Manuela Borzone
Abstract:Throughout his extensive literary career, Jorge Luis Borges contributed to the study of Argentine gauchesca, the nineteenth-century genre about frontier life centered on the life of the gaucho. His essays “La poesía gauchesca” (1928) and “El escritor argentino y la tradición” (1932) criticized the hyperbolic praise nationalist scholars such as Leopoldo Lugones and Ricardo Rojas had bestowed upon José Hernández’s Martín Fierro (1872) on the eve of Argentina’s centennial celebrations at the turn of the twentieth century. In gauchesca, Borges saw problematic characters which prompted questions regarding what type of nation could result from the glorification of violence such as that found in gauchesca.As a result of his criticisms of the genre, Borges’s gaucho short stories “Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)” and “El Sur,” are understood as some of the last vestiges of gauchesca, and “El fin” as the coup de grâce that prompted the genre’s death. However, this article proposes a closer examination of these stories and essays to reveal that Borges ends a mode of reading gauchesca, not gauchesca itself, arguing that Borges ultimately offers a generic path forward for future writers of the genre.
摘要：在其广泛的文学生涯中，豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯对阿根廷高切斯卡的研究做出了贡献，这是一种以高乔人的生活为中心的19世纪关于边疆生活的流派。他的散文《高切斯卡之诗》（1928年）和《阿根廷与传统》（1932年）批评了利奥波德·卢戈内斯和里卡多·罗哈斯等民族主义学者在二十世纪之交阿根廷百年庆典前夕对何塞·埃尔南德斯的马丁·费罗（1872年）的夸张赞扬。在《高切斯卡》中，博尔赫斯看到了一些有问题的人物，这引发了人们的疑问，即对暴力的美化会导致什么样的国家，比如在《高切斯卡》中发现的暴力。由于他对这一类型的批评，博尔赫斯的高乔短篇小说“Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz（1829–1874）”和“El Sur”被认为是高切斯卡的最后遗迹，而“El fin”则被认为是促使这一类型消亡的政变。然而，这篇文章建议对这些故事和散文进行更深入的研究，以揭示博尔赫斯结束了一种阅读高切斯卡的模式，而不是高切斯卡本身，认为博尔赫斯最终为未来的这一类型的作家提供了一条通用的前进道路。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899973
Damon Reed
Abstract:Javier Fuentes-León’s 2009 film, Contracorriente/Undertow, received international recognition, accolades, and awards. While the film attempts to be revolutionary—and perhaps at the time of its release, it was—it perpetuates many of the stereotypes that it seemingly attempts to undermine. This essays seeks to challenge homonormative depictions of male homosexuality by analyzing how the film’s male protagonists, Miguel and Santiago, satisfy the common trope of the hyper-masculinized and hyperfeminized gay male that permeates the socio-cultural fabric of Latin America and beyond. The film’s plot presents a narrative of Miguel, a fisherman with a pregnant wife, who has a secret love affair with the painter and community outsider, Santiago. Fuentes-León creates a complex narrative fueled by rumors, stereotypes, and heterosexism, framing a taboo human story as a parable about authenticity. This paper blends visual and textual analysis with feminist and queer theoretical discourses to interrogate contemporary understandings of Contracorriente as well as depictions of gay male figures throughout the visual landscape.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899974
A. Sabogal
Abstract:La novia oscura (1999) irrumpe como un raro ejemplo narrativo dentro de la producción literaria colombiana que, al final del siglo XX, se enfocaba en la representación de la violencia urbana y de la narcocultura. El presente artículo examina el giro telúrico de Laura Restrepo en La novia oscura, donde reemplaza a las ciudades como escenarios de confrontaciones violentas para retomar no sólo las temáticas, sino la estilística de la novela telúrica. Se argumenta que, con La novia oscura, Restrepo descoloniza la novela de la selva humanizando la historia concreta de violencia institucional contra la comunidad guahiba, desde la experiencia femenina. Así, de la novela de Restrepo, emerge la voz de la mujer guahiba para denunciar el legado de la expropiación territorial, el desplazamiento forzado y la violencia rural, que tradicionalmente han impactado a las poblaciones originarias de la Orinoquía. Esta región colombo-venezolana, que ha servido de escenario geográfico a emblemáticas novelas de la selva como La vorágine (1924), Doña Barbara (1929) y Los pasos perdidos (1953), es re-creada en La novia oscura para subvertir la representación de las comunidades ancestrales y sus procesos históricos consignados por escritores en novelas telúricas anteriores.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/tla.2023.a899978
A. Moulton
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