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- New World Soundings: Culture and Ideology in the Americas
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- 2020
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings, cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He inquires into the ways in which speech and poetry evoke the common historical experience of North and South America and examines the transatlantic "sea changes" of European languages. He uses political ideology to contrast the traditions of Anglo and Latin America, while surveying contemporary pressures for ideological change. In the book's final sections, he addresses the North-South transaction from yet three more angles, ruminating on the problems involved in conveying the Latin American experience to U.S. students, considering the impediments to U.S.-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, "the world's first Brazilianist," as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- acknowledgments
- p. ix
- antecedents and sources
- pp. xi-xii
- Half Title 1
- p. xiii
- introduction
- pp. 1-8
- PART I. Speech and Expression
- one. language in america
- pp. 11-60
- PART II. Ideology and Political Culture
- three. claims of political tradition
- pp. 95-130
- four. notes toward fresh ideology
- pp. 131-166
- PART III. The North-South Transaction
- five. on grooming latin americanists
- pp. 169-200
- six. puerto rico: eternal crossroads
- pp. 201-225
- Back Matter- Copyright
- p. 228
- Back Matter- Dedication
- p. 229
- Bm-Contents
- p. 231
- Bm-Foreward
- pp. 233-234
- Back Matter- One. Le Commencement
- pp. 235-239
- Back Matter- Two. Le Milieu
- pp. 239-245
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421435107
Related ISBN(s)
9781421435091
MARC Record
OCLC
1128014544
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2019-11-18
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND