Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

by Néstor García Canclini

Book Overview

Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816623155
• ISBN13: 9780816623150
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"