Tropicalizations. Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

Bibliographic Data

ID9869563
AuthorsCarlota Caulfield (Portuguese Army)
Year1999
Volume82
Issue4
Pages777
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofTropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad, Frances R Aparicio, 1997
VenueHispania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/346355
OpenAlexW2038225173
LanguageEN

Tropicalization, as the editors define it, means to trope, to imbue a particular space, geography, group, or nation with a set of traits, images, and values that are circulated and perpetuated through official texts, history, literature, and the media. With bold strokes, this collection outlines how dominant Anglo cultures have, through traditional colonizing discourses, constructed Latin American and Latinas/os in the US. It also examines how Latina/o writers and artists have internalized, appropriated, and transformed these hegemonic definitions. Focusing on literary and aesthetic production, essays explore topics such as the imbalance of power in the trans-cultural relationship, gender-based myths about Latin America and Latina/o sexuality, tensions inherent in contact zones between cultures, and the tropicalization of Cuba from within the US

Art · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies

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