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Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Autor Cecilia M. Rivas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2014
 Ravaged by civil war throughout the 1980s and 1990s, El Salvador has now emerged as a study in contradictions. It is a country where urban call centers and shopping malls exist alongside rural poverty. It is a land now at peace but still grappling with a legacy of violence. It is a place marked by deep social divides, yet offering a surprising abundance of inclusive spaces. Above all, it is a nation without borders, as widespread emigration during the war has led Salvadorans to develop a truly transnational sense of identity. In Salvadoran Imaginaries, Cecilia M. Rivas takes us on a journey through twenty-first century El Salvador and to the diverse range of sites where the nation’s postwar identity is being forged. Combining field ethnography with media research, Rivas deftly toggles between the physical spaces where the new El Salvador is starting to emerge and the virtual spaces where Salvadoran identity is being imagined, including newspapers, literature, and digital media. This interdisciplinary approach enables her to explore the multitude of ways that Salvadorans negotiate between reality and representation, between local neighborhoods and transnational imagined communities, between present conditions and dreams for the future.
Everyday life in El Salvador may seem like a simple matter, but Rivas digs deeper, across many different layers of society, revealing a wealth of complex feelings that the nation’s citizens have about power, opportunity, safety, migration, and community. Filled with first-hand interviews and unique archival research, Salvadoran Imaginaries offers a fresh take on an emerging nation and its people. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813564616
ISBN-10: 0813564611
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 2 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States


Notă biografică

 CECILIA M. RIVAS is assistant professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imaginaries of Transnationalism
1. Tracing the Borderless in "Departamento 15"
2. The Desperate Images
3. Vega's Disgust
4. Exporting Voices: Aspirations and Fluency in the Call Center
5. "Heart of the City": Life and Spaces of Consumption in San Salvador
Conclusion: Renewing Narratives of Connection and Distance

Notes 
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"In this excellent, innovative, nuanced, and empirically rich work, Rivas examines transnational exchanges, profound and rapid social change, and maps a geography of marginalization in a nation without borders."

"In this landmark study of postwar Salvadoran transnationalism, Cecilia M. Rivas illuminates with profound insight and interpretive power the world-making imaginary of Salvadoran migrants and their aspirations to construct a borderless nation."

Descriere

 Accessible and beautifully written, Rivas examines how El Salvador’s post-war identity has been transformed by communication technologies, journalistic narratives of migratory experiences, and the complex relationships between private and public spaces of consumption and belonging. This book shows how seemingly disparate sites of experience and representation—call centers, newspapers, shopping malls, and literature—can reveal the complicated process of a nation reinventing itself.