{"product_id":"global-latin-america-9780520277731","title":"Global Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLatin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCING THE GLOBAL SQUARE BOOK SERIES\u003cbr\u003e Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chasing Che: Introduction to Global Latin America\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey Lesser and Matthew Gutmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: THE LATIN AMERICAN PAST IN THE GLOBAL PRESENT\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos\u003cbr\u003e Matthew Gutmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 • The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Jennifer Scheper Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate\u003cbr\u003e Greg Grandin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poem: “Cruces de fronteras \/ Border Crossings”\u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 • From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation\u003cbr\u003e Gabriel Hetland and Peter Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Manga: “Che Guevara”\u003cbr\u003e Kiyoshi Konno and Chie Shimano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: TONGUES AND FEET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Borges’s Library: Latin America, Language, and the World\u003cbr\u003e Paja Faudree and Daniel Suslak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Love, Protest, Dance, Remix\u003cbr\u003e Michelle Bigenho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poem: “Lo prohibido”\u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol\u003cbr\u003e Brenda Elsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 • Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Portnoy and Jeffrey M. Pilcher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 • The Rise of Brazil’s Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Neill and Marcia N. Macedo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10 • Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique\u003cbr\u003e Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poem: “Perfecto Flores”\u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11 • A Long Strange Trip: Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture\u003cbr\u003e Paul Gootenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12 • Nobel Lecture\u003cbr\u003e Rigoberta Menchú Tum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13 • Sex Worker Activism and Labor\u003cbr\u003e Denise Brennan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poem: “Ajustes familiares \/ Family Adjustments”\u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14 • Latin American Travel: The Other Side of Tourism Encounters\u003cbr\u003e Florence E. Babb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15 • Brazil Circles the Globe\u003cbr\u003e Ruben George Oliven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FIVE: ART MOVES THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16 • The Latin American Novel as International Merchandise\u003cbr\u003e Ilan Stavans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17 • Traveling Melodrama: Telenovelas and Exporting Southern Moralities; or, How Can Something So Bad Still Be So Good?\u003cbr\u003e O. Hugo Benavides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poem: “Los invisibles \/ Invisibility”\u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18 • The Girl from Shinjuku: How a Japanese Brazilian Diva Keeps Bossa Nova Alive in China\u003cbr\u003e Fabiano Maisonnave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19 • “More than a Nationality”: An Interview with Gael García Bernal about Latin American Cinema and the World\u003cbr\u003e Alma Guillermoprieto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the Editors and Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402864435543,"sku":"9780520277731","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520277731.jpg?v=1730481719","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-latin-america-9780520277731","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}