Public intellectuals in contemporary Latin America
By: edited by Avital H. Bloch, Rogelio de la Mora and Hugo Cancino.
Contributors: Bloch, Avital H.; Mora V., Rogelio de la.; Cancino Troncoso, Hugo.
Publisher: University of Colima; Aalborg University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Colima, Col., México; Aalborg East, Denmark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789709535709
Subjects: Intellectuals -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Intellectuals -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century; Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chilean social scientists after the transition : opposing roles for the former opposition / Carolyn Sorkin; title: Intellectual prestige and public frustration : ambiguities of public intellectuals in Brazil / Fernando Lattman-Weltman; title: The ideological thought of Ernesto "Che" Guevara / Hugo Cancino; title: How the world determined the verb : Gioconda Belli, a poet forged in the action / Priscilla Gac-Artigas; title: The role of intellectuals in truth commissions in Peru and Mexico / Rogelio de la Mora; title: The modernity discourse of Chilean intellectuals / Pablo Cristoffanini; title: The democratic vision of Subcomandante Marcos : local visions, global portents / Hugh Bartling; title: The journal Vuelta and the emergence of Mexican neoconservatism / Avital H. Bloch; title: Beatriz Sarlo : the fervor of commitment / Dora Barrancos.