Close Encounters of Empire

Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Autor: Joseph, Gilbert M.; LeGrand, Catherine C.; Salvatore, Ricardo D.
Editor: Duke University Press
Col·lecció: American Encounters/Global Interactions
ISBN: 9780822320852
eISBN Pdf: 9780822396352
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 1998
Mes: Setembre
Pàgines: 592
DDC: 303.48/28073
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period.

Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America, these theoretically engaged essays by distinguished U.S. and Latin American historians and anthropologists illuminate a wide range of subjects. From the Rockefeller Foundation’s public health initiatives in Central America to the visual regimes of film, art, and advertisements; these essays grapple with new ways of conceptualizing public and private spheres of empire. As such, Close Encounters of Empire initiates a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the long-standing scholarship on colonialism and imperialism in the Americas as it rethinks the cultural dimensions of nationalism and development.

Contents
Foreword - Fernando Coronil
Preface
I: Theoretical Concerns
- Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations - Gilbert M. Joseph
- The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter - Steve J. Stern
- The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire - Ricardo D. Salvatore
II: Empirical Studies
- Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. Images of the Andes, 1859- 1930 - Deborah Poole
- Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 - Eileen J. Findlay
- Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 - Steven C. Topik
- The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 - Michael J. Schroeder
- The Cult of the Airplane among U.S. Military Men and Dominicans during the U.S. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime - Eric Paul Roorda
- Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 - Steven Palmer
- Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia - Catherine C. LeGrand
- From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines - Thomas Miller Klubock
- Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: US. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico - Seth Fein
- Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic - Lauren Derby
III: Final Reflections
- Turning to Culture - Emily S. Rosenberg
- Social Fields and Cultural Encounters - William Roseberry
- From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts - Marfa del Carmen Suescun Pozas
Contributors
Index