Critical Latin American and Latino Studies Juan Poblete, editor		$23.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4079-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4079-9 $70.50 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4078-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4078-2
Situates these dynamic disciplines within debates around globalization. This book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to global processes of change. Critical Latin American and Latino Studies identifies the challenges and possibilities of more politically engaged and theoretically critical modes of scholarly practice. One objective is to provide a brief critical history of the study of various Latin American cultures-Latino, Chicano, Puerto Rican, among others. But these essays also serve to assess the roles of ethnic and area studies in light of changing scholarly trends, from emphases on gender and sexuality to a focus on postcoloniality and globalization. The result is an important contribution to current debates on the conditions of contemporary knowledge production. “In Critical Latin American and Latino Studies, Poblete advocates a “multicultural and multilingual multiculturalism” in which new immigrants help U.S. Latinos to reinforce their roots.” —Latin American Research Review Contributors: Tomás Almaguer, Frances R. Aparicio, John Beverley, Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Román de la Campa, Juan Flores, Walter D. Mignolo, Giorgio Perissinotto, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Stefano Varese, George Yúdice, Juan Zevallos Aguilar. Juan Poblete is assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 304 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2003 Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 12