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The Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies is a fundamental reference for students, pedagogues, and investigators interested in understanding the terminology of the field. This comprehensive volume explains and contextualizes fifty-four key terms and theories, including some general concepts in cultural studies (e.g., body, deconstruction, ideology, postmodernism, power, queer theory) as they relate to research in Latin America, and some specific to the field of Latin American studies (e.g., anthropophagy, deterritorialization, lettered city). Each entry defines the term in question, explains its usages, discusses its etymology and the intellectuals who have made relevant contributions, and provides a bibliography of essential sources. Uniquely suited to the student or scholar struggling with translating cultural studies terminology into non-English language topics of study, originally published in Spanish, and with contributions by many of the field's foremost authorities, this dictionary is poised to become a defining text for Latin American cultural studies.

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A wide-ranging resource of information on a geographic area that has hitherto received less attention than it deserves. <i>Reference Reviews</i>

A wide-ranging resource of information on a geographic area that has hitherto received less attention than it deserves. Reference Reviews

A wide-ranging resource of information on a geographic area that has hitherto received less attention than it deserves. -- Reference Reviews

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Robert McKee Irwin, chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and professor of Spanish at the University of California-Davis, USA, is the author of Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands. Mónica Szurmuk, research professor at the Institute of Latin American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the author of Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives.

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