About the Book
A standard text used in Latin American culture courses, this collection of readings and interviews focuses on the dynamic tension between tradition and change in contemporary Latin American culture - from the Caribbean to Central and South America, including Brazil. Identifying key issues in Latin American culture, the author uses the readings to ask how those issues, such as urbanization or the changing role of the family, alter, enrich or confound the traditional cultural values and institutions. The text highlights cultural contributions of women and ethnic minorities. This edition includes an interview with Dr Rodrigo Gomez, the director of the Instituto di Biodiversidad Nacional on Costa Rico's efforts to promote envronmental sustainability.
Table of Contents:
PrefacioUno: Introducci"nDos: Las clases sociales César Vallejo, Un hombre pasa con un pan al hombroGraciliamo Ramos, CuentasMiguel Angel Asturias, En el Portal del Se-orVictoria Ocampo, Palabras francesas (fragmento)Miriam Lazo Laguna, entrevista, Las clases sociales y la revoluti"n nicaragüenseMiriam Lazo Laguna, entrevista, El aborto de la revoluci"n nicaragüenseTres: La etnicidadJulia de Burgos, Ay, ay, ay de grifa negraNicolás Guillén, Balada de los dos abuelosCarolina María de Jesús, La favela (fragmento)Ricardo A. Pozas, Juan PérezJolote (fragmento)Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán (fragmento)Charles David Kleymeyer, Carlos Moreno, La feria educativa, una fuente de ideas y orgullo cultural (fragmento)Cuatro:La urbanizaci"nLarissa Adler de Lomnitz, Asociaciones formales e informales (fragmento)Lourdes Arizpe S., El migrante indígena en la Ciudad de MéxicoGustavo Slau G., Andrés Yurjevic M., La agricultura urbana, una alternativa productiva para combatir la pobreza en sectores marginalesCinco: La familiaGabriela Mistral, Recuerdo de la madre ausente (fragmento)Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Si mepermiten hablar (fragmento)Clarice Lispector, Feliz cumplea-osMario Benedetti, La guerra y la pazRosario Castellanos, Valium 10Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon, M"nica; Se-ora Reyes (Fragmento)Seis: La educaci"nSonya Rend"n, entrevistas, Nuevo Mundo: un experimento educativo modeloPaulo Freire, Pedagogía del oprimido (fragmento)Alipio Casali, entrevista, La Pontifícia Universidade de Sao Paulo: educaci"n y compromiso socialAlipio Casali, entrevista, EpílogoCarlos Tünnerman Bernheim, La nueva política educativa (fragmento)Siete: La religi"nCamilo Torres Restrepo, entrevista, ¿Comunismo en la Iglesia? (fragmento)Camilo Torres Restrepo, entrevista, Mensaje a los cristianosErnesto Cardenal, Oye Se-or mi causa justaErnesto Cardenal, Sus acciones son como el heno de los camposDom Helder Câmara, entrevista, Iglesia y desarrollo (fragmento)Victorio Araya Guillén, entrevista, El protestantismo en América LatinaJean Price-Mars, Así habl" el tío (fragmento)Ocho: La crítica culturalLa identidad nacionalSamuel Ramos, El pelado (fragmento)René Marqués, El puertorrique-o d"cil (fragmento)Gioconda Belli, Línea de fuegoGiononda Belli, Yo fui una vaz una muchacha risuenaEl machismoOctavio Paz, Los hijos de la Malinche (fragmento)Maruja Barrig, La familia: vieja instituci"n, nueva fachada (fragmento)Elena Milán, Las buenas mujeres (Fragmento)El militarGrabiel Gracía Márquez, Un día de éstosBarbara Délano, PresuntamenteEl desarrollo econ"mico y el medio embienteJosé Lutzenberger, entrevista, Principal ec"logo de Brasil (fragmento)Rodrigo Gámez, entrevista, La diverisdad bi"logica in Costa RicaGabriel García Márquez, La soledad de América Latina: Conferencia Nobel, 8 diciembre 1982Clave Indice
About the Author :
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola University, Chicago, where she teaches Latin American Literature and Culture. She has published a book of oral histories, Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution (Routledge, 1990), and an anthology on Latino cultures in the Unied States, Barrios and Borderlands (Routledge, 1994). She is co-author of the Destinos professional supplements Spanish for educators and Spanish for Social Services (McGraw-Hill, 1993). Professor Heyck is currently working on a book about the relationship between cultural survival and environmental sustainability in several Latin American communities. Her book reviews appear in Hispania and Choice. She received her Ph.D. from the University of London.
Marï¿a Victoria Gonzï¿lez-Pagani is currently Chair of the Foreign Language Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Previously, she was Spanish Language Coordinator at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her special interests include language teaching methodology, Spanish syntax, computer-assisted foreign language instruction, and Latin American cultural studies, especially women's issues. Miss Gonzï¿lez- Pagani attended the Universidad Nacional de Tucumï¿n, Argentina, and received her M.A. in Applied and Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
