Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

by Francis R. Aparicio and Susana Chavez-Silverman

Book Overview

Tropicalization, as the editors define it, "means to trope, to imbue a particular space, geography, group, or nation with a set of traits, images, and values" that are circulated and perpetuated through official texts, history, literature, and the media. With bold strokes, this collection outlines how dominant Anglo cultures have, through traditional colonizing discourses, constructed Latin American and Latinas/os in the US. It also examines how Latina/o...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874518172
• ISBN13: 9780874518177
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"