Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists from the region, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century.
Table of Content
List of Figures
INTRODUCING THE GLOBAL SQUARE BOOK SERIES
Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser
Acknowledgments
Chasing Che: Introduction to Global Latin America
Jeffrey Lesser and Matthew Gutmann
PART ONE: THE LATIN AMERICAN PAST IN THE GLOBAL PRESENT
Introduction
1 • Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos
Matthew Gutmann
2 • The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs
Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Jennifer Scheper Hughes
3 • Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate
Greg Grandin
Poem: “Cruces de fronteras / Border Crossings”
Renato Rosaldo
4 • From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation
Gabriel Hetland and Peter Evans
Manga: “Che Guevara”
Kiyoshi Konno and Chie Shimano
PART TWO: TONGUES AND FEET
Introduction
5 • Borges’s Library: Latin America, Language, and the World
Paja Faudree and Daniel Suslak
6 • Love, Protest, Dance, Remix
Michelle Bigenho
Poem: “Lo prohibido”
Renato Rosaldo
7 • Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol
Brenda Elsey
8 • Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles
Sarah Portnoy and Jeffrey M. Pilcher
PART THREE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH
Introduction
9 • The Rise of Brazil’s Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture
Christopher Neill and Marcia N. Macedo
10 • Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique
Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring
Poem: “Perfecto Flores”
Renato Rosaldo
11 • A Long Strange Trip: Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture
Paul Gootenberg
PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES
Introduction
Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum
12 • Nobel Lecture
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
13 • Sex Worker Activism and Labor
Denise Brennan
Poem: “Ajustes familiares / Family Adjustments”
Renato Rosaldo
14 • Latin American Travel: The Other Side of Tourism Encounters
Florence E. Babb
15 • Brazil Circles the Globe
Ruben George Oliven
PART FIVE: ART MOVES THE WORLD
Introduction
16 • The Latin American Novel as International Merchandise
Ilan Stavans
17 • Traveling Melodrama: Telenovelas and Exporting Southern Moralities; or, How Can Something So Bad Still Be So Good?
O. Hugo Benavides
Poem: “Los invisibles / Invisibility”
Renato Rosaldo
18 • The Girl from Shinjuku: How a Japanese Brazilian Diva Keeps Bossa Nova Alive in China
Fabiano Maisonnave
19 • “More than a Nationality”: An Interview with Gael García Bernal about Latin American Cinema and the World
Alma Guillermoprieto
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
About the author
Matthew Gutmann is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), and Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Jeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Emory University.
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