Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America

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v List of Illustrations vii Introduction: Mediating Urban Identities 1 Richard Young and Amanda Holmes iMagining urban identities Havana in the Nueva Trova Repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso 15 Robin Moore Last Snapshots/Take 2: Personal and Collective Shipwrecks in Buenos Aires 31 Geoffrey Kantaris Buenos Aires and the Literary Construction of Urban Space 46 Richard Young Body Art and the Remaking of Mexico City 59 Anny Brooksbank-Jones urban identities and Cultures on the PeriPhery Feasting on Latina/o Labor in Multicultural Los Angeles 75 Rodolfo D. Torres and Juan R. Buriel Mediating the Public Sphere in Latina/o Detroit: Heart and Margin of an Embattled Metropolis 88 Catherine L. Benamou Textual Revisions of Identity: Nostalgia and Modernity in Asunción 105 Amanda Holmes Contents young and holmes text-5.indd 5 11/1/10 10:08 AM Northeastern Images: Recife and Salvador in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema 120 Angela Prysthon PerforManCe and the ritualiZation of urban identities Performing Citizenship: Migration, Andean Festivals, and Public Spaces in Lima 135 Gisela Cánepa The TransMilenio Experience: Mass Transit in Bogotá and National Urban Identity 151 Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste The Feria del Libro and the Ritualization of Cultural Belonging in Havana 167 Antoni Kapcia and Par Kumaraswami Zapatistas in Mexico City and the Performance of Ethnic Citizenship 183 Andrea Noble Afterword: The Dialectics of Identity in the Latin/o American Global City 199 Abril Trigo Notes 217 References 231 List of Contributors 249 Index 253 vi — contents young and holmes text-5.indd 6 11/1/10 10:08 AM Figure 1: Teresa Margolles, Secreciones en el muro, 2002 71 Figure 2: Line cooks behind the scenes at Taco Rosa, January 2007 79 Figure 3: Tortilla maker on display in the dining area at Taco Rosa, January 2007 84 Figure 4: Detroit metropolitan area, 2010 89 Figure 5: Inscribing the Latina/o presence in Detroit history, May 2007 91 Figure 6: Southwest Detroit and environs, 2010 93 Figure 7: Milling corn at a farm in the interior of Paraguay 112 Figure 8: Calle Palma, Asunción 113 Figure 9: Qhapaq Qolla dancers during the procession of the Virgen del Carmen de Paucartambo, Downtown Lima, July 1998 143 Figure 10: El Señor de Qoyllur Riti receives greetings from church authorities at Lima Cathedral, June 2006 145 Figure 11: Cabaña Fortress, site of the Havana International Book Fair, 2009 172 Figure 12: Zapatistas in the Zócalo, La Jornada, 19 March 1999 185 Figure 13: A friendly football match, March 1999 185 Figure 14: Zapatistas in Sanborns, 1999 186 Figure 15: Zapatista leaders in Sanborns, 1914 186 illustrations young and holmes text-5.indd 7 11/1/10 10:08 AM young and holmes text-5.indd 8 11/1/10 10:08 AM Cultures of the City young and holmes text-5.indd 9 11/1/10 10:08 AM young and holmes text-5.indd 10 11/1/10 10:08 AM ...