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Las elecciones de 1946 en la Provincia de Corrientes y la resistencia a la hegemonía
Authors: Solís Carnicer Maria del Mar
Published: February 2024

La irrupción del peronismo en la política argentina marcó el inicio de unperíodo histórico en el que nuevos actores serán los protagonistas de los procesos y de los conflictos politicos. Reflejo de la centralidad de esta cuesti6n, consi- derada clave para entender la historia política de la Argentina contemporánea, es la cada vez más amplia y diversa bibliografía académica que desde los más variados enfoques se refiere al peronismo. En cuanto a los aportes propiamente historiograficos, en las ultimas decadas se observ6 un interes creciente en su abordaje. En general, las principales preocupaciones de estos trabajos giran en torno a la búsqueda de respuestas acerca de su origen, organización partidaria y composici6n social; sobre la identificaci6n y analisis de sus componentes sim- bólicos y discursivos, y sobre las transformaciones que provocó en las prácticas políticas y en el surgimiento de nuevas formas de relación entre el estado y la sociedad.2 Además, recientemente se inició el análisis de sus variantes provin- ciales y regionales. A través de todos estos trabajos se consiguió avanzar en el conocimiento del “fenómeno peronista”, profundizar sobre sus rasgos y evaluar las consecuencias de su aparición en la arena política nacional.
Socialismo y « revolución nacional » en el primer peronismo
Authors: Herrera Carlos Miguel
Published: February 2024

El conjunto de transformaciones que produjo la llegada del peronismo alpoder, y quizas con mayor precisi6n, su institucionalizaci6n a finales de losaños cuarenta, atravesó también el campo intelectual. Durante mucho tiempo aquel grupo social que adhiri6, desde su especificidad, al nuevo movimiento, no sólo fue objeto de burla por parte de sus adversarios; tampoco constituyó una precupación especial de la historiografía, que prefería enfocar la relación entre intelectuales y peronismo en el marco del análisis de la oposición al régimen. Las personalidades que por entonces aceptaron ocupar las más altas funciones ministeriales en las recién creadas áreas de educación o cultura, como Oscar Ivanissevich, José María Castiñeira de Dios o Armando Méndez San Martín, con todo lo que podían presentar de “novedoso” para los cánones de la cultura argentina de entonces, no agotan tampoco el objeto, como ya algunas investigaciones recientes lo han mostrado.1 Pero aun cuando se señale la heterogeneidad de los intelectuales peronistas, se considera que fue en las filas del catolicismo y del nacionalismo donde se reclutaron sus mayores referentes.
Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. NICK HENCK: Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007.
Authors: Schmidt Arthur
Published: February 2024

One of the most remarkable features of the 1994 uprising of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) has been the vast discrepancy between its weak military power and its considerable global reach, the latter due in substantial measure to the eloquence of Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, the masked Subcomandante Marcos. As Nick Henck argues in his lengthy and able new biography of Marcos, the EZLN spokesperson has become "the most famous guerrilla leader since Che Guevara" thanks to his "charisma, media savvy, and mystique."
Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading. SUSAN DEANS-SMITH & ERIC VAN YOUNG (eds.): London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2007.
Authors: Rankin Monica A.
Published: February 2024

Mexican Soundings is a compilation of essays written to honor the contributions of David Brading, one of the most established scholars of Mexican history. And a fitting tribute it is. Now retired, Brading built a long and successful career as a member of the faculty at such institutions as University of California at Berkeley, Yale, and Cambridge.
La otra guerra secreta. Los archivos prohibidos de la prensa y el poder. JACINTO RODRÍGUEZ MURGUÍA: México: Debate, 2007.
Authors: Enciso Froylán
Published: February 2024

Este libro es una historia de los mecanismos de propaganda y control informativo en México, sobre todo en los gobiernos de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) y Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970-1976). Entre las virtudes que lo hacen altamente recomendable está el uso exhaustivo de fuentes primarias del Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), especialmente los fondos de los órganos de inteligencia de la Secretaría de Gobernación en los momentos más álgidos del régimen autoritario mexicano: la Dirección Federal de Seguridad y la Dirección de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales.
La provincia flotante. El exilio argentino en Cataluña (1976-2006). SILVINA INÉS JENSEN: Barcelona: Km 13.774, 2007.
Authors: Pisarello María Virginia
Published: February 2024

La provincia flotante es una obra construida en clave historiográfica, fruto de la tesis doctoral que su autora defendió en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona en octubre de 2004. En ella, Silvina Jensen emprende una minuciosa reconstrucción de los derroteros que jalonaron el exilio de los argentinos que recalaron en Cataluña tras huir de la última dictadura militar en su país de origen (1976-83).
Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies. ANTONIO VIEGO: Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007.
Authors: Mendoza Louis
Published: February 2024

It would behard to dispute the claim that much of Latino Studies and its antecedentdisciplines of Chicano and Puerto Rican Studies have emerged as coordinatedresponses to the collective trauma resulting from the violence of loss anddispossession. Be it the territorial, material, social, and politicaldispossession and displacement that follows from colonial conquest or thelinguistic, spiritual, or cultural loss that was coerced by legal andextra-legal means in the centuries following contact with Europeans, a profoundsense of fragmentation and alienation permeates the Latino world of theAmericas. This shared experience has been influential in shaping much of thediscursive response that constitutes Latino Studies.
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. THOMAS GLAVE (ed.): Duke University Press, 2008.
Authors: González Eduardo
Published: February 2024

"...he is dancing, a poet, a black boy / in a culture where masculinity iscode," says the voice of Kevin Everod Quashie, a poet from St. Kitts, inhis 2003 poem "Genesis". What is said and sung by Quashie may wellstand for the root emotion and intellectual drive behind this gathering ofqueer presences from the region where, according to the late Antonio BenítezRojo, the island repeats herself (Antonio's island is female), but is not quitethe same in becoming identical with being beside herself.
Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath. CHARLES F. WALKER: Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2008.
Authors: Brown Kendall
Published: February 2024

On 28 October1746, a devastating earthquake, followed by a tremendous tsunami, destroyed Lima and its portof Callao. Deathestimates range from eight to twenty percent, much higher than the mortalitycaused by the great earthquake and tsunami that devastated Lisbon in 1755. Indeed, the tremendousfifty-foot tidal wave left fewer than 200 alive out of Callao's population of 6,000. Diseasefollowed in the cataclysm's wake to claim many more victims.
Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict. Understandig Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. FRANCES STEWART (ed.): Hampshire/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Authors: León Luis Vázquez
Published: February 2024

Desde hace pocos años, los temas de la violencia, el conflicto y la militarización vienen atrayendo las reflexiones de un creciente número de estudiosos sociales. Desde luego, estos no son temas que fascinen en exceso, como sí lo hace la cultura y sus estudios, predilectos de la mayoría de los académicos. Más allá de su presunta estética o mera popularidad, hay que reconocer que los estudios de la violencia pueden resultar repulsivos, mas no se puede negar que en ellos la cultura juega un papel central.
Translation in History: Some Comments
Authors: Burke Peter
Published: February 2024

Despite the trend towards the globalization of culture of which we are hearing so much, ideas and intellectual practices still do not travel very rapidly between continents or even between disciplines. For example, most professional historians of my acquaintance are hardly aware, if at all, of the discipline - or interdisciplinary crossroads - of Translation Studies, still less of its possible relevance to their own work. For this reason I was especially pleased to have the opportunity to read Georges Bastin's article on the need, as he puts it, to rewrite the history of Spanish America from the point of view of translators and to examine the role of translation in history.
“Ese héroe es el joven comunista”: Violencia, heroísmo y cultura juvenil entre los comunistas uruguayos de los sesenta
Authors: Markarian Vania
Published: February 2024

En el correr de los años sesenta, en un momento de gran expansión de su militancia, los espacios juveniles asociados al  Partido Comunista Uruguayo
Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. KATHRYN A. SLOAN: Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008
Authors: Purnell Jennie
Published: February 2024

Kathryn A. Sloan's Runaway Daughters is a study of the highly ambiguous crime and social drama of rapto de seducción in nineteenth-century Oaxaca, capital city of the southern Mexican state of the same name. Defined in the 1871 Mexican Penal Code as "the abduction of a woman against her will by the use of physical violence, deception, or seduction in order to satisfy ‘carnal desires' or to marry" (1), the charge of rapto provided ample terrain for the contestation of gender roles, parental authority, sexual and family honor, and the role of the state in defining adulthood and marriage. Rapto cases might involve sexual assault and coercion, as the parents of the young women often charged. But they might also be instances of consensual elopement (legally defined as rapto if the girl was under 16 years of age) in which minors "employed the drama of rapto as a strategy to defy parental authority and sometimes earn legal emancipation to make independent choices about their sexual or conjugal arrangements" (4).
Las relaciones franco-argentinas, 1880-1910. Inmigración, comercio y cultura. HEBE PELOSI: Buenos Aires: Colección Histórica, 2008
Authors: De la Rosa María Fernanda
Published: February 2024

Mucho se ha escrito sobre la influencia francesa en la Argentina, pues la misma constituyó uno de los campos más fértiles en la investigación sobre el pasado no sólo nacional sino de muchas de las naciones latinoamericanas. ¿De qué tenor son las relaciones entre ambos países? ¿Cuál es el motivo por el cual la intelectualidad argentina se orienta conscientemente a la recepción de la influencia francesa? ¿Qué caracteriza a la cultura gala en el Río de la Plata? ¿Cómo es la inserción de los inmigrantes franceses en el territorio nacional? ¿Cuándo y por qué comienza a decaer esta influencia?
Imagining la Chica Moderna. Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936. JOHANNE HERSHFIELD: Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
Authors: Franco Adela Pineda
Published: February 2024

Imagining la Chica Moderna. Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936 is a study of the popular images that were addressed to female middle-class consumers during the years following the Mexican Revolution. The study questions one-sided historical approaches on state formation and official nationalism by dealing with "popular" forms of female representation in the public domain; hence, "popular culture" and "gender" are key methodological tools for this study. By highlighting the importance of consumer culture addressed to women, the author attempts to expose the interaction between heterogeneous identities and official nationalism, between state formation and market forces, between discourses on mexicanidad and transnational gendered commercial ones.
A Poverty of Rights. Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro. BRODWYN FISCHER: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008
Authors: Arocena Felipe
Published: February 2024

Este libro comienza como terminan las películas. Lo encabezan seis páginas completas de agradecimientos a no menos de cien personas, más otras tantas  instituciones. La autora es, efectivamente, extremadamente detallista, esfuerzo que también plasma en el índice de contenidos -que tiene diecisiete páginas-, pasando por las notas -con ochenta y tres-, y la bibliografía de referencia -con treinta. En total, todo esto representa casi un tercio del trabajo .Su tema central es la construcción de la historia de los derechos de los habitantes pobres de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro entre 1930 y 1964. Las razones por las que la autora justifica la elección de este período son dos. La dictadura de Vargas inaugura las demandas de la clase trabajadora para ampliar sus derechos, y la dictadura de Castello Branco las clausura. Habrá que esperar hasta el inicio de la década de los ochenta para ver otra vez a la sociedad y a los sectores trabajadores movilizados en la transición política (cuando nace la figura del sindicalista Lula en San Pablo), que culmina en 1985 cuando Sarney es democráticamente electo presidente. La historia de la "pobreza de derechos" (ésta parece ser la mejor traducción del libro) de los pobres cariocas se estructura en cuatro partes.
Denle duro que no siente. Poder y transgresión en el Perú republicano. CARLOS AGUIRRE: Lima: Fondo Editorial del Pedagógico San Marcos, 2008
Authors: Whipple Pablo
Published: February 2024

Denle duro que no siente presenta una recopilación de artículos del historiador peruano Carlos Aguirre, publicados previamente en diversos libros y revistas entre los años 1995 y 2007, más una introducción escrita especialmente para el volumen. Dividido en tres secciones, las dos primeras abordan temáticas relativas a la esclavitud, el delito y sus mecanismos de castigo, para finalmente, en la tercera sección, incluir dos artículos en los que se presentan estudios comparativos a nivel latinoamericano para los temas abordados en las dos primeras secciones, y un artículo donde se analiza el desarrollo de la historiografía sobre la historia social peruana para el periodo que va de 1821 a 1930.
Colored by the Past: Identity and the Armed Forces in Peru, from Colonial Militias to Armies of Independence
Authors: Sobrevilla Perea Natalia
Published: February 2024

One of the most enduring images in Latin American is that of the founders of the nations in their dashing military uniforms, with gold-tasseled epaulets, gold and brass buttons, assorted medals, ribbons and fancy decorations, worn over dark blue or bright red jackets, tight white jodhpurs and shiny black boots. These ‘padres de la patria’ or founding fathers emerged in the context of independence.
Soldiers, Priests and the Nation: From Wars of Religion to Wars of National Independence in Spain and New Spain.
Authors: Eastman Scott
Published: February 2024

The Capuchin friar Diego José de Cádiz penned an influential treatise in 1793 during the War Against the Convention (1793-1795) titled The Catholic Soldier, in a War of Religion.  It was reprinted and circulated widely during the War of Independence in Spain (1808-1814), and according to an early twentieth-century friar, it had a profound effect on that “heroic generation” of soldiers who fought against the French.
SEBASTIAN EDWARDS: Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Authors: Astudillo Javier
Published: February 2024

SEBASTIAN EDWARDS: Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promiseof Populism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
STEPHANIE J. SMITH: Gender and the Mexican Revolution. Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy. North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Authors: Vaca Agustín
Published: February 2024

STEPHANIE J. SMITH: Gender and the Mexican Revolution. Yucatán Womenand the Realities of Patriarchy. North Carolina: The University of North CarolinaPress, 2009.
ERICK D. LANGER: Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830-1949. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009.
Authors: Mabat Yael
Published: February 2024

ERICK D. LANGER: Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missionson the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830-1949.Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009.
Radical Border Crossers: The Industrial Workers of the World and their Press in Latin America
Authors: Rosenthal Anton
Published: February 2024

Whenever I ask my students to tell me what the I.W.W. was, invariably the first answer that comes up is that it was the acronym for the “International Workers of the World.” Aside from the inaccurate redundancy, I think this answer unwittingly points to an under-appreciated truth about the Industrial Workers of the World—that it was an early 20th-century organization with a truly global reach, filled with activists who eagerly crossed international borders in support of causes that they sometimes strategically framed as local but which clearly fit into a broad plan of worldwide syndicalist revolution linked with anarchism.
Ilustrar la memoria: las imágenes de tapa de la colección Dos polishe yidntum (El judaísmo polaco), Buenos Aires, 1946- 1966
Authors: Chinski Malena
Published: February 2024

En este trabajo vuelvo sobre uno de los más importantes proyectos conme-morativos emprendidos por la diáspora judeopolaca en la inmediata posguerra,una colección de 175 libros en ídish llamada Dos poylishe yidntum [El judaísmopolaco], dirigida por Marc Turkow  y editada por la Unión Central IsraelitaPolaca en Buenos Aires entre 1946 y 1966.6 Las imágenes de portada de estos libros conforman un archivo que reuní durante mi estadía en el Yiddish BookCenter (Amherst, Massachusetts).7
Archival Memory Systems: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Latin America
Authors: Chavarría Christina E.
Published: February 2024

In the six decades following the end of World War II, only twenty percentof Holocaust-era records had been analyzed, according to the late distinguishedscholar Raul Hilberg.1 Considering the proliferation of books, journal articles, and academic programs in Holocaust studies, this figure seems shockingly low, but when we consider the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s archi- val holdings from Latin America and Spain, we are reminded of the unclaimed histories these archives hold, for few scholars have pursued studying these in earnest. Diplomatic correspondence, records of concentration camps, Jewish communities, businesses and institutions, newspaper articles, texts from private collections of individuals, and more from Latin America and Spain, speak to the tremendous amount of material that is forgotten, and the history that is forgottenwith them.
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas. ROSA-LINDA FREGOSO, and CYNTHIA BEJARANO (eds.): Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010.
Authors: Pieper Mooney Jadwiga E.
Published: February 2024

In 2001, I first watched Lourdes Portillo’s documentary Missing Young Women (Señorita Extraviada) and have been haunted by some of the scenes in the film ever since. Viewers learned that in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, men kill women, take body parts as trophies, and then dump their victims like garbage along highways, or in remote desert locations. Unknown sadistic assailants have left a trail of victims, many of them young women who have recently migrated to the region to be employed in the border industries, the Maquiladoras. Their families have, even today, no clear information about the circumstances of the crimes, and have not been able to find closure.
A Century of Revolutions: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War GREG GRANDIN and GILBERT M. JOSEPH (eds.): Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Authors: Spenser Daniela
Published: February 2024

This volume of finely crafted essays was inspired by Arno Mayer´s Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (2000). In his book Mayer posits that the terror associated with those revolutions sprung from the social conflict between the old and the new orders and not from the revolutions themselves.
Marginados y consagrados. Nuevos estudios sobre la vida judía en la Argentina. EMMANUEL KAHAN, LAURA SCHENQUER, DAMIÁN SETTON, ALEJANDRO DUJOVNE: Buenos Aires: Ediciones Lumiere, 2011.
Authors: Lvovich Daniel
Published: February 2024

Marginados y consagrados es un grueso e interesante volumen en el que se reúnen trabajos de quince jóvenes investigadores, doce de ellos argentinos, que abordan en sus investigaciones, de modos muy distintos, diversos aspectos de la vida judía enla Argentina en los siglos XX y XXI.
Justa Aracy de Carvalho e o resgate de Judeus: Trocando a Alemanha nazista pelo Brasil. MONICA RAISA SCHPUN: Civilizacao Brasileira, 2011.
Authors: Cytrynowicz Roney
Published: February 2024

Escrita pela  historiadora Mônica Raisa Schpun, esta é a biografia de Aracy de Carvalho e a história da amizade que a uniu a Maria Margarethe Bertel Levy, duas mulheres com perfis e trajetórias distintas e cujo encontro se deu em circunstâncias trágicas: a necessidade de Margarethe e seu marido Hugo emigrarem da Alemanha nazista e a atuação de Aracy, funcionária do consulado brasileiro em Hamburgo entre 1934 e 1942, facilitando a obtenção de vistos e auxiliando nos trâmites de emigração de judeus alemães cuja entrada no Brasil seria legalmente vetada. As duas voltariam a se encontrar em São Paulo, nos anos 1940, e estabeleceriam uma duradoura relação de amizade.
Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Isreal. BARAK KALIR: Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Authors: Rein Raanan
Published: February 2024

This is a fascinating ethnographic study, documenting the lives of some 12 thousand undocumented migrants who reached Israel in the mid-1990s from various Latin American countries. Of special importance is the effort to analyze the full circle of this migration flow. The book is based on extensive field work among these migrants in Israel, as well as among returnees, deportees, and potential migrants in Ecuador.
The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality. STANLEY E. BLAKE: University OF Pittsburgh Press, 2011
Authors: Goodman Glen Skiles
Published: February 2024

That Brazilian regional identities are racially charged is a truism. From naming practices in cuisine to the possibility of requesting a gaúcha at a brothel, elite and popular understandings of these identities belie the idea of a coherent “Brazilian race.” Until recently, however, English-language scholarship that hoped to interrogate this idea tended to project São Paulo and/or Rio de Janeiro conceptions of race onto the rest of the country or focus solely on ideas of blackness or Afro-Brazilianness. Studies of immigrants and their descendants who did not fit neatly into the classic black-white dyad helped to complicate these narratives, but regional approaches were still unexplored.
Cuatros y billetes. Crisis del sistema monetario peruano (1821-1879). ALEJANDRO SALINAS: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú e Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2011
Authors: Deustua C. José R.
Published: February 2024

El nuevo libro del historiador Alejandro Salinas, autor de previos trabajos de historia económica y social como Capital extranjero y ferrocarriles, 1884-1899 (2008) o La Huaneyda. Historia del Huano, 1850-1879 (2009), y de historia cultural y de imágenes como Publicidad gráfica en la prensa limeña, siglo XIX (2010) o Iconografía republicana, siglo XIX (2002), es mas bien una historia de los debates y de las leyes que se promulgaron en relación a la emisión, circulación e impresión de monedas y billetes peruanos, los que tuvieron una historia agitada, fragmentaria y, en especial, crítica, pues las políticas gubernamentales no siempre eran ni consistentes ni efectivas en un pais dividido regional, social y racialmente, como el Perú del siglo XIX y, sobre todo, con vastos sectores de haciendas y comunidades campesino-indígenas, de villorios rurales y de una economía natural, naturalwirtschaft.
La transformación de las convenciones apocalípticas en la narrative de Clarice Lispector
Authors: Naomi Lindstrom
Published: February 2024

La obra de la narradora brasileffa Clarice Lispector (n. Ucrania 1920; m. Rio de Janeiro 1977) presenta, entre muchas otras complicaciones, un problema critico sumamente dificil de abordar y resolver: la busqueda e identificaci6n de los rasgos del pensamiento judio que  se puedan percibir en su obra. A pesar de provenir de una familia judía, nunca tematizó explícitamente su cultura de origen.
Globalización e identidades plurales en las telenovelas argentinas de fines del siglo XX
Authors: Jonas Aharoni Gabriela
Published: February 2024

Durante la década del noventa se produjeron en Argentina profundos cambiosen el plano económico, político y social. Estas transformaciones alcanzaron también a la industria televisiva argentina y a la industria de la telenovela en particular, que comenzó a desarrollar productos culturales dirigidos a la audiencia nacional e internacional. De este modo, la industria local inició su etapa transnacional ganando nuevos mercados. con este objetivo las telenovelas presentaron estructuras narrativas híbridas que combinaban e integraban con maestría diversos géneros y temáticas.
Etnicidad y espacio público: La imagen del judío en películas de México y Chile
Authors: Tal Tzvi
Published: February 2024

La globalización de las economías latinoamericanas, iniciada en la década de los ochenta, y la hegemonización del neoliberalismo provocaron una crisis en las identidades nacionales. La des-industrialización, la reducción del estado benefactor y las migraciones produjeron cambios en la composición del mosaico étnico, dando lugar a una creciente legitimación de la distinción cultural y de las identidades grupales. La cinematografía del continente manifiesta estos procesos con la cada vez más profusa aparición de personajes judíos y narrativas judías en películas destinadas al mercado cinematográfico general, que concurren a festivales nacionales e internacionales. Estos productos culturales dan cuenta de la reconstrucción de una etnicidad blanca, casi invisible en las pantallas hasta la última década del siglo XX.
Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli beyond the Nation: co-productions with Paraguay
Authors: Ruétalo Victoria
Published: February 2024

In the above quote sex symbol and film star Isabel Sarli highlights the personal connection she has to Paraguay, a nation tightly linked to her work with director Armando Bó. The highly popular sexploitation couple made two official co-productions with Paraguay. Neither of these films received funds from their respective States. As an entrepreneur and independent producer, Bó managed to make co-productions by teaming up with private investors from different nations keen on supporting local film initiatives. Albeit not directly associated with the State, these investors were not entirely disconnected from the State’s political agenda. In this article, I am interested in exploring Bó and Sarli’s co-productions to question the static vision of national cinemas and invite new ways of thinking about interconnections between nations.
RAMÓN EDUARDO RUIZ: Mexico. Why a few are rich and the people poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Authors: Márquez Graciela
Published: February 2024

A principios de diciembre de 2012, pocos días después de su asunción del mando, el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, anunció una cruzada contra el hambre en México como uno de los ejes de la política social de su gobierno. Más allá de la coyuntura en la que surgió este programa, su motivación radica en las precarias condiciones de vida de miles de mexicanos y la brecha entre ricos y pobres.
PAUL J VANDERWOOD: Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Authors: Priest Allen G.
Published: February 2024

Satan’s Playground by Paul Vanderwood takes the reader into a land of jackpots, fine food, and copious amounts of alcohol, all served up amongst plush, glittering surroundings. Of course, a good tale (and good history) is never truly complete without a little violence. True to its reputation, the Mexican resort of Agua Caliente does not disappoint.
FLORENCIA GARRAMUŃO: Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Authors: Oyata Martin
Published: February 2024

How is it that tango and samba succeeded in overcoming their modest beginnings to finally achieve national recognition and become symbols of their countries? The answer that Florencia Garramuño offers in her book Primitive Modernitiesis twofold: on the one hand, the taste of the elites moved towards these popular genres, becoming (relatively) more plebeian; on the other hand, these genres became progressively “more sophisticated and polished” (p. 22) until they eventually garnered the aura of prestige associated with the “civilized” world.
SANDRA MC GEE DEUTSCH: Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Authors: Hyland Steven
Published: February 2024

Sandra McGee Deutsch has produced a significant contribution in Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955, a moving and beautiful book assessing how women pursued meaningful lives in difficult circumstances. This study deepens our understanding of women’s experiences and challenges future scholars to examine women in other groups for comparison. By exploring the many ways Jewish women engaged in communal, local, civic and national institutions, the author evocatively illustrates the multiple hurdles and opportunities these actors faced.
RAANAN REIN: Los Bohemios de Villa Crespo: judíos y fútbol en la Argentina. Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 2012.
Authors: Adamovsky Ezequiel
Published: February 2024

Siempre es una buena noticia que un historiador distinguido, como lo es Raanan Rein, decida volcar el fruto de sus investigaciones en un libro de divulgación destinado al gran público, género poco valorado por la academia pero mucho más difícil de lo que suele pensarse.
MAGALI M. CARRERA: Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011.
Authors: Cosentino Delia
Published: February 2024

In an 1835 publication, Mexican statesman and historian Carlos María de Bustamante asked three critical questions of his still formative nation, floundering in the aftermath of Spanish colonization: “¿Quienes somos? ¿de donde venimos? ¿para donde caminamos?” In her important contribution to both cartographic scholarship and to the discipline of art history, Magali Carrera finds the most significant answers to these ponderous queries in the form of the 1885 Átlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos by Antonio García Cubas, a multi-talented governmental agent in the Ministry of Development.
LAURA GOTKOWITZ (ed.): Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Authors: Ulfe María Eugenia
Published: February 2024

Race and racism are two problematic categories that are used in this book to reflect on recent political events in Latin America – events that are historically rooted in deep and conflictive societal relationships. From the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia, to the use of archaeological ruins for the construction of a national narrative mixed with Indigenismo ideologies, mestizaje discourse and ideology, and the formation of indigenous movements, the book presents (I borrow the title of one of the chapters), “A Postcolonial Palimpsest: The Work Race Does in Latin America.”
CLAUDIA KEDAR: The International Monetary Fund and Latin America The Argentine Puzzle in Context. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.
Authors: Remmer Karen L.
Published: February 2024

What accounts for the devastating Argentine crisis of 2001 that resulted in the largest sovereign debt default in world history? Claudia Kedar poses this question in the introduction to her study of the relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Argentina.
KAREN FAULK: In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina, EMILIO A. CRENZEL: The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más.
Authors: Sheinin David M. K.
Published: February 2024

KAREN FAULK: In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; EMILIO A. CRENZEL: The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más. London: Routledge press, 2011.Together, these excellent books tell the story of the most profound transformation in urban, middle class Argentine political cultures since the fall of the last military dictatorship in 1983.
AUYERO, JAVIER: Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Authors: Faulk Karen
Published: February 2024

What are we doing, and what is being done to us, when we wait? In this most recent book, Javier Auyero turns his focus on this often invisible feature of social life – the act of waiting. Rather than viewing time spent waiting as empty or as a mere place marker before purposeful action occurs, Auyero directs our attention to the act of waiting itself and the ways in which being made to wait is already productive of social meaning. The book proposes and serves as a “tempography,” tracing how the urban poor of Buenos Aires perceive and experience time spent waiting. Being made to wait, coupled with a lack of consistency and transparency as to the reasons for the delay or expected duration of the wait, operates, Auyero argues, as a means of political domination and subordination to the state.
JUAN CARLOS KOROL, CLAUDIO BELINI: Historia económica de la Argentina en el siglo XX. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI editores, 2012.
Authors: Heras Raúl García
Published: February 2024

This book traces the economic history of twentieth-century Argentina from the outbreak of the First World War to the collapse of the currency convertibility plan that marked the end of the neoliberal economic reforms enforced in the country during the 1990s. In so doing it takes up the controversial economic performance of a leading South American country that has long received widespread scholarly attention, and that at the onset of the last century many academics, writers, politicians, and journalists thought was destined to become a world power in the Western Hemisphere. An introductory chapter provides an overall balance of the Argentine economy in the early 1910s and anticipates the outlook of the book.
MOLLIE LEWIS NOUWEN: Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity. Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Authors: Kalczewiak Mariusz
Published: February 2024

Mollie Lewis Nouwen's new book is a fascinating story of Jewish Buenos Aires, a city that became a space where new meanings of Jewishness and argentinidad were formed and negotiated. Her book allows readers to catch a glimpse of the everyday lives of Jewish Argentines in the early twentieth century. Examining foodways, popular culture and criminality, Lewis Nouwen takes us on an unusual trip to immigrant Buenos Aires as she discusses how the Jews contributed to the development of modern porteño identity.
Between Resistance and Repression: New Writing on Argentine Political Radicalism, 1955-1976
Authors: Mor Jessica Stites
Published: February 2024

The two decades between 1955 and 1976, bookended by the beginning of amilitary coup that ousted populist President Juan Perón in 1955 and the dictatorshipthat replaced a democratically elected government in 1976, was a periodof tremendous political radicalism that would leave a permanent impression onArgentina’s political history. During this period, left wing parties in Argentina,already “extensive, prolific, [with] countless complexities and contradictions,” 2gradually transformed from traditional orthodox parties of the left and the labormovement into a ‘new left,’ introducing a wide range of ideological influences.The nueva izquierda drew from crowds of intellectuals, university students,defectors from traditional parties, guerrillas, and social movements, raisinga challenge to the legitimacy of traditional leftist parties in representing thespectrum of political concerns and ambitions of the left.
Between the Local and the Transnational: New Historiographical Approaches on Argentine Political History, 1930 to 1943
Authors: Nállim Jorge
Published: February 2024

In the last two decades, new scholarship has revised one of the most contentiousperiods of twentieth-century Argentine history: the long decade of 1930-1943.These years have traditionally been the focus of strong political, ideological, andhistoriographical debates due, in great part, to their critical location as a hingebetween two other important periods. On the one hand, they represent the declineand crisis of the liberal republic, established in 1853, marked by the impactof the Great Depression in Argentina’s export economy as well as by the firstperiod of military rule in modern Argentine history, which began in September1930. On the other hand, the transformations experienced during those yearshave also been studied as the prelude to the rise of Juan Perón and his populistmovement, which began in full force with his participation in the military coupof June 1943 and the ensuing military regime of 1943-1946.
FRANCISCO DE ÁVILA: Dioses y Hombres de Huarochirí: Narración quechua recogida por Francisco de Ávila [¿1598?]. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2012.
Authors: Nir Amnon
Published: February 2024

El manuscrito anónimo conocido bajo el nombre Dioses y Hombres de Huarochirí es una fuente muy importante para el conocimiento de los rasgos sociales y culturales de la sociedad andina prehispánica y colonial, ya que es el único texto colonial escrito en quechua por un autor indígena que contiene una tradición oral andina.
DANIELA GLEIZER: Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Authors: Peña Delgado Grace
Published: February 2024

Daniela Gleizer’s Unwelcome Exiles will interest many Latin Americanistsand immigration scholars not only because it provides a detailed history of theJewish diaspora in Mexico, but also because it does so from a renewed perspective.In 2011, Gleizer’s original manuscript was published under the title, El exilioincómodo: México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945 (El Colegio de México:Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa). El exilio incómodo challengedthe collective memory of Mexico as a haven for exiles even as it detailedthe welcoming of refugees from the Spanish Civil War.
CYMENE HOWE: Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua. Duke University Press, 2013.
Authors: Adam Barry D.
Published: February 2024

CYMENE HOWE: Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua. Duke University Press, 2013.
JORGE GALLARDO PAVÓN: Los Cristeros sin Rifle. México: Ed. Plaza y Valdés, 2013.
Authors: Campos López Xóchitl Patricia , Velázquez Caballero Diego Martín
Published: February 2024

JORGE GALLARDO PAVÓN: Los Cristeros sin Rifle. México: Ed. Plaza y Valdés, 2013.
Paisaje social, trayectoria artística e identidad política: el caso de Ramón Ayala
Authors: Orquera Fabiola
Published: February 2024

ResumenEste trabajo se ocupa de la trayectoria artística y política del músico ypoeta argentino Ramón Ayala, nacido en Misiones, en el límite con Paraguay yBrasil. Traza un recorrido desde su infancia, su formación inicial, en contactoestrecho con músicos paraguayos exiliados en Buenos Aires, su tempranaadhesión al marxismo, su relación con el Movimiento Nuevo Cancionero ysu viaje a Cuba en 1962 y 1967. Todos esos eventos están enmarcados en laGuerra Fría, que tiene un giro central en la historia latinoamericana en 1959, alproducirse la Revolución Cubana. Este evento tuvo una incidencia innegableen la producción simbólica del folklore musical nacional y latinoamericano.La obra de Ayala, caracterizada por la formulación social del paisaje de laselva misionera y de los hombres explotados en la cosecha de la yerba mate,fue –y sigue siendo aún– expresión de la incidencia del mencionado períodohistórico en la música popular argentina.Palabras clave: folklore argentino, revolución cubana, movimientonuevo cancionero, paisaje social, guerra fría.AbstractThis article focuses on the artistic and political trajectory of the Argentineanmusician and poet Ramón Ayala, who was born in Misiones, the frontierbetween Paraguay and Brazil. It draws upon events in his childhood, hisinitial formation and tight connection with musicians who were exiled fromParaguay and lived in Buenos Aires, his early affiliation with Marxism, hisrelationship to the New Song Movement and his trip to Cuba in 1962 and1967. All these events are framed by the Cold War and especially the CubanRevolution as the epicenter of global history in Latin America. This eventhad an undeniable influence on the symbolic production of national and LatinAmerican folklore. Ayala’s work is characterized by the social formulationof the Misiones’ jungle landscape and the exploited men who worked in theyerba mate harvest, which was – and still is – an expression of the influenceof the Cold War on Argentinean popular music.Key words: Argentinean folklore, Cuban Revolution, Social landscape,New Song Movement, Cold War.
FERNÁNDEZ L’HOESTE AND PABLO VILA, (EDS). Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013.
Authors: McCleary Kristen
Published: February 2024

FERNÁNDEZ L’HOESTE AND PABLO VILA, (EDS). Cumbia! Scenesof a Migrant Latin American Music Genre. Durham and London: DukeUniversity Press, 2013.
KRTISTINA WIRTZ: Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History. Chicago;London: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Authors: Morad Moshe
Published: February 2024

KRTISTINA WIRTZ: Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle inthe Making of Race and History. Chicago;London: University of ChicagoPress, 2014.
TERRY RUGELEY. The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.
Authors: Haworth Daniel S.
Published: February 2024

TERRY RUGELEY. The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.
ANA MARÍA OCHOA GAUTIER: Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014.
Authors: Fernández L’Hoeste Héctor
Published: February 2024

ANA MARÍA OCHOA GAUTIER: Aurality: Listening and Knowledgein Nineteenth-Century Colombia. Durham and London: Duke UniversityPress, 2014.
Los intereses argentinos en Paraguay durante la Guerra del Chaco (1932-1935): razones de un apoyo incondicional
Authors: Zuccarino Maximiliano
Published: February 2024

El presente artículo propone explicar la posición del gobierno argentinoante la Guerra del Chaco (1932-1935), favorable al Paraguay, a partir delos múltiples intereses, públicos y privados, que se hallaban en juego y quemotivaron la participación activa del país del Plata, a la vez como parteinteresada y como mediador “neutral” en el conflicto.
FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN, The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Argentina. NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Authors: Nállim Jorge A.
Published: February 2024

FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN, The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War:Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Argentina.NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
CELSO CASTILHO: Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016; WALTER FRAGA: Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910. Duke University Press, 2016
Authors: De la Torre Oscar
Published: February 2024

CELSO CASTILHO: Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016; WALTER FRAGA: Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910. Duke University Press, 2016
MOIRA CRISTIÁ: Imaginaire péroniste. Esthétique d’un discours politique (1966-1976). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016
Authors: Caruso Valeria A.
Published: February 2024

MOIRA CRISTIÁ: Imaginaire péroniste. Esthétique d’un discours politique (1966-1976). Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016
Estado, política y vivienda entre dos peronismos: los grandes conjuntos habitacionales y las acciones en villas miseria en Buenos Aires, 1946-1976
Authors: Ballent Anahí
Published: February 2024

The article aims to analyze the period in which constructive activity,credit-granting, and promotion of massive housing by the State were at theirmost intensive in the history of Argentina. From the perspective of the historyof architecture and the city, it addresses the two poles of the policies duringthat period: high density housing projects and the actions in shantytowns(villas de emergencia). These topics are developed through the analysis ofthree cases that each represent specific moments within the chosen period.The analysis emphasizes the conditions that led to the adoption in Argentinaof architectural solutions that were not the most frequented in other LatinAmerican countries.Keywords: Argentinian Modern Architecture, Housing Policies, Architectureand Politics, Architecture and Urban Development, Shanty towns
Edna Aizenberg: An Obituary for a Colleague and a Friend
Authors: Rein Raanan
Published: February 2024

My most recent conversations with Edna revolved around Zionism, the fascinationof early Zionist leaders with the possibility of resettling Jews in Argentinaand, more specifically, Eshkol Nevo’s novel Neuland. The book’s protagonist isforced to leave his wife and daughter in order to fly to South America in searchof his father who has been reported missing. There, he meets with a womanwho has impulsively fled Israel due to a loveless relationship and the grief at theloss of her brother. The novel highlights Israelis searching for new meaning andexploring the meaning of homeland. Parts of our conversations are reflected inEdna’s most recent article, “Jewish Gauchos on the Mediterranean: How AlbertoGerchunoff Met Eshkol Nevo,” published posthumously in Chasqui: Revista deliteratura latinoamericana 47.1 (2018).
LIBROS RECIBIDOS – BOOKS RECEIVED
Authors: Ribke Nahuel
Published: February 2024

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Catholicism, Politics and Society in Modern Latin America
Authors: Mabat Yael
Published: February 2024

The distinction drawn by Chevalier between “Anglo” America and “Latin”America would later become part of a vibrant debate among scholars about howexactly the region south of the Río Grande became known as “Latin America.”2While opinions diverge, there is general agreement that Catholicism, and theregion’s common Catholic heritage, were an essential part of what enabledcontemporaries, including Chevalier himself, to give birth to the idea of “LatinAmerica.” Nevertheless, during that same period the Catholic Church acrossLatin America was thrown in social, economic, and political turmoil, and wasthus paradoxically forced to fight for its place in the continent that it was helpingto conceptualize.