The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521636513
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Language Arts & Disciplines; Civilization; History - General History; Spanish; Language; Central America; Latin America; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin America - South America; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Linguistics; Arts, Latin American
First sentence: The concept of 'Latin America' is a mid-nineteenth-century European invention, conjured up as a convenient means of distinguishing the Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking countries from the Anglo-American world which, after the American Revolution, found its most powerful expression in the United States.