What is la hispanidad?: A conversation (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they?
In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished intellectuals, a cultural critic and a historian, engage in a series of probing conversations in which they try to discern the nature of la hispanidad and debate whether any such shared identity binds the world's nearly half billion people who are "Hispanic." Their conversations range from La Reconquista and Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who united the Spanish nation while expelling its remaining Moors and Jews, to the fervor for el fútbol (soccer) that has swept much of Latin America today. Along the way, they discuss a series of intriguing topics, including the complicated relationship between Latin America and the United States, Spanish language and the uses of Spanglish, complexities of race and ethnicity, nineteenth-century struggles for nationhood and twentieth-century identity politics, and popular culture from literary novels to telenovelas. Woven throughout are the authors' own enlightening experiences of crossing borders and cultures in Mexico and Chile and the United States.
Sure to provoke animated conversations among its readers, What is la hispanidad? makes a convincing case that "our hispanidad is rooted in a changing tradition, flexible enough to persist beyond boundaries and circumstances. Let us not fix it with a definition, but allow it instead to travel, always."

Politics & Social Sciences

Stavans, Ilan

Jaksić, Iván

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

History

Europe

This is the first book-length biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.

Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 87)

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

This is the first book-length biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-1990 (Latin American Studies Series)

After a decade of dictatorship, the resurrection of democratic forces in Chile began with the debt crisis and recession of the early 1980s. Mass demonstrations erupted and political parties revived with unexpected vigor despite the repression of General Augusto Pinochet's regime. The United States pressed for democratization. In 1988, to the astonishment of the world, Pinochet allowed his oppenents to win an honest plebiscite and accepted the resulting transition to democracy. The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-1990 is the first book to discuss in comprehensive detail that unusual transition. This book provides background on the evolution of the military dictatorship in the 1970s and then concentrates on its erosion in the 1980s. It concludes with the installation of Patricio Aylwin as the democratically elected president in 1990. Here, eleven leading experts examine how the most significant social and political sectors reacted to liberalization in the 1980s, and how the opposition took advantage of the dictatorship's own legality to bring about an end to authoritarian rule. First the book examines the Pinochet regime's supporters, with essays by Arturo Valenzuela ("The Military Power"), Augusto Varas ("The Crisis of Legitimacy of Authoritarianism"), Eduardo Silva ("The Political Economy of Regime Transition"), and Guillermo Campero ("Entrepreneurs under the Military Regime"). Second, it studies Pinochet's opponents, with chapters by María Elena Valenzuela ("The New Roles of Women"), Alan Angell ("Unions and Workers in the 1980s"), Manuel Antonio Garretón ("The Political Opposition and the Party System"), Carlos Portales ("External Factors and the Authoritarian Regime"), and Felipe Larraín ("The Economic Challenges of Democratic Development").

Drake, Paul W.

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Many philosophers have been appointed to top-level political positions during Chile's modern history. What makes Chilean philosophers unique in the context of Latin America and beyond, is that they have developed a sophisticated rationale for both their participation and withdrawal from politics. All along, philosophers have grappled with fundamental problems such as the role of religion and politics in society. They have also played a fundamental role in defining the nature and aims of higher education. The philosophers production constitutes a substantial, albeit largely unknown, portion of the intellectual history of Chile and Latin America. This book describes in detail the evolution of philosophical work in Chile, and pays close attention to the relationship between philosophical activity and contemporary social and political events. Various Chilean philosophical sources are discussed for the first time in the literature on Chilean ideas. The work of such intellectuals as Andres Bello, Valentin Letelier, Enrique Molina, Jorge Millas, Juan Rivano, Juan de Dios Vial Larrain, and many others is examined in relation to the principal political and educational issues of their time. The book also develops a distinction between the two main currents of Chilean philosophy, namely, a professionalist current that seeks the independence of the field from social and political involvements, and a critical current that seeks to relate philosophical activity to national realities.

Academic Rebels in Chile: The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics (Suny Series in Latin American Thought and Culture)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

State Univ of New York Pr

Academic Rebels in Chile: The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

Entre los miles de papeles inéditos del historiador William H. Prescott se encuentra una bella traducción al inglés de una oda de Horacio dedicada a Septimio: "Ven conmigo a la España lejana". No hay versión de este poema que ilustre mejor la mezcla de sentimientos que inspiraron no sólo al historiador sino a toda una generación de intelectuales norteamericanos: la curiosidad por una España remota y el deseo de recorrerla con un amigo entrañable. Es decir, conocer lo distinto de la mano de lo seguro y firme; contemplar el pasado imperial de la mano de los nuevos valores democráticos; definir la identidad propia por contraste con la ajena.

Ven conmigo a la España lejana. Los intelectuales norteamericanos ante el mundo hispano, 1820-1880 (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Historia política de Chile, 1810-2010. Tomo II: Estado y sociedad (Spanish Edition)

Rengifo, Francisca

Fondo de Cultura Económica Chile

Historia política de Chile, 1810-2010. Tomo III: Problemas económicos (Spanish Edition)

Robles, Claudio

Estefane, Andrés

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