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Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings, cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He inquires into the ways in which speech and poetry evoke the common historical experience of North and South America and examines the transatlantic sea changes of European languages. He uses political ideology to contrast the traditions of Anglo and Latin America, while surveying contemporary pressures for ideological change. In the book's final sections, he addresses the North-South transaction from yet three more angles, ruminating on the problems involved in conveying the Latin American experience to U.S. students, considering the impediments to U.S.-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, the world's first Brazilianist, as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Antecedents and Sources
Introduction
Part I. Speech and Expression
Chapter 1. Language in America
Chapter 2. Four American Poets: A Cat's Cradle
Part II. Ideology and Political Culture
Chapter 3. Claims of Political Tradition
Chapter 4. Notes Toward Fresh Ideology
Part III. The North-South Transaction
Chapter 5. On Grooming Latin Americanists
Chapter 6. Puerto Rico: Eternal Crossroads
Notes
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 30 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421435091
      978-1421435091
      ISBN-10 1421435098
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      Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings, cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He inquires into the ways in which speech and poetry evoke the common historical experience of North and South America and examines the transatlantic sea changes of European languages. He uses political ideology to contrast the traditions of Anglo and Latin America, while surveying contemporary pressures for ideological change. In the book's final sections, he addresses the North-South transaction from yet three more angles, ruminating on the problems involved in conveying the Latin American experience to U.S. students, considering the impediments to U.S.-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, the world's first Brazilianist, as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Antecedents and Sources
      Introduction
      Part I. Speech and Expression
      Chapter 1. Language in America
      Chapter 2. Four American Poets: A Cat's Cradle
      Part II. Ideology and Political Culture
      Chapter 3. Claims of Political Tradition
      Chapter 4. Notes Toward Fresh Ideology
      Part III. The North-South Transaction
      Chapter 5. On Grooming Latin Americanists
      Chapter 6. Puerto Rico: Eternal Crossroads
      Notes
      Index

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