Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Released on by Luis H. Castañeda
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  • Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture Book Detail

  • Author : Luis H. Castañeda
  • Release Date : 2016-09-23
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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  • Pages : 395
  • ISBN 13 : 1443812781
  • File Size : 1,1 MB
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Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture by Luis H. Castañeda PDF Summary

Book Description: What are Hispanic alternative communities and how are they represented in literature, film, and popular music? This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, youth gangs, musical bands, packs of marginal urban dwellers, groups of immigrants, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, perhaps akin to secret societies plotting to take control of society. These groups usually exist within a larger and established community – typically, the nation-state – though maintaining with it complicated relations of rivalry, criticism, outright violence, and other forms of antagonism. Thus “alternative communities” represent the “other side” of official institutions, by constituting dystopias that condemn the status quo, or by building utopias that point to new social arrangements. In the Hispanic world – a broad, transatlantic space that includes Spain and Spanish America – alternative communities have existed since the 19th century, a time of nation-building for Spanish American countries, all the way to the 21st century, when hybrid, postnational, and cosmopolitan communities begin to appear. The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume, which constitutes the first systematic approach to Hispanic alternative communities, tackle this complex cultural phenomenon from diverse critical perspectives.

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