“This book is an essential reference for scholars and
students from a wide array of fields represented by Latin
American and cultural studies. It provides highly
authoritative entries on most of the major topics of the
day.”—Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Naciones
Intelectuales
“This text represents a fantastic resource as well as an
excellent pedagogical tool for the diffusion of the main
tenets of cultural studies among students and among
scholars who are not specialists in Latin American cultural
studies.”—Ana Del Sarto, coeditor of Latin American
Cultural Studies Reader
“A dictionary is a book to ask questions of. Not only what
each word means but also why some are present and others
are absent, and how the presences and the absences are
connected. Irwin and
Szurmuk’s Dictionary exhaustively registers
the sources and lines of development of the studies of
culture in Latin America.” — Néstor García
Canclini, writing in En torno a los estudios
culturales
The Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies is
a fundamental reference for students, pedagogues, and
investigators interested in understanding the terminology
of the field.
This comprehensive volume explains and contextualizes
fifty-four key terms and theories, including some general
concepts in cultural studies (e.g., body, deconstruction,
ideology, postmodernism, power, queer theory) as they
relate to research in Latin America, and some specific to
the field of Latin American studies (e.g., anthropophagy,
deterritorialization, lettered city). Each entry defines
the term in question, explains its usages, discusses its
etymology and the intellectuals who have made relevant
contributions, and provides a bibliography of essential
sources.
Uniquely suited to the student or scholar struggling with
translating cultural studies terminology into non-English
language topics of study, originally published in Spanish,
and with contributions by many of the field’s foremost
authorities, this dictionary is poised to become a defining
text for Latin American cultural studies.