Latin/o American City Life in Snapshots. A Review of (eds.) Richard Young and Amanda Holmes’ Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.)

• Inga Veksler ^[1]
  1. [1] Rutgers University

     Rutgers University

     City of New Brunswick, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 9, Nº. 2, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Inverno 2012), págs. 444-451
• Idioma: inglés
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  • As its title suggests, Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America, edited by Richard Young and Amanda Holmes, brings together work in Latin American urban cultural studies. However, as the editors admit in their introductory chapter, it does not offer any generalizations about Latin American cities, or their symbolic representation in cultural texts. Rather, the editors present the collection of articles as ephemeral “snapshots”—glimpses into a dozen cities. This lack of unified message, theme, or theoretical outlook allows for a diverse array of topics but is also the volume’s greatest detraction.