MACLAS Latin American Essays articles from March 1 2001

MACLAS Latin American Essays archives from March 1 2001

Managing editor's preface.
March 1, 2001... The fifteenth volume in the series of MACLAS: Latin American Essays presents a selection of fifteen papers given at the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies held at American and Howard...

Social movements and hybrid cultural formations: Tepoztlan's "no al golf".
March 1, 2001... What does it mean when a "traditional" Mexican campesino declares himself to be an "environmentalist?" How do we explain a women's Bible study group taking up the mantle of defenders of "human rights?" How do these new titles and...

Creating citizens: the birth and growth of the Cuban internal pro-democracy movement.
March 1, 2001... In November 1999 Cuba hosted the 10th Ibero-American Summit, in which approximately 20 Latin American Presidents and Heads of State joined together to discuss the present and future of Ibero-American relations. At the time, the meeting appeared...

Words, sounds, and power in Jamaican Rastafari.
March 1, 2001... Rastafari is a religious movement that grew out of Jamaica during the 1930s. The Rastafarian movement "has been described [by social scientists] as a `political cult,' a `messianic movement,' a `politico-religious cult' among other labels. But...

Yoruban religious survival in Brazilian Candomble.
March 1, 2001... Candomble is a possession religion widely practiced in Brazil today. This Afro-Brazilian religion is syncretic, a mingling of the pantheon, practices, and beliefs brought to the New World by Yoruban slaves and freedmen with the Catholicism of...

Healing the rupture: a Jungian perspective in African religion/mythology.
March 1, 2001... In a letter dated March 25, 1998 from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Vatican City, to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and of Madagascar, the pastoral began by saying that, "[t]he secretariat for...

Latin America's 1980's and Asia's 1990's debt crisis: a comparison.
March 1, 2001... I Latin America's Foreign Debt crisis of the 1980s has had profound repercussions that resulted in fundamental changes in the process of Economic Development and the economic structure of several Latin American countries. Asia's Foreign...

Nuclear politics in Cold War Argentina.
March 1, 2001... The history of the Argentine nuclear sector is wonderfully contradictory--"wonderfully" because despite its problems and failures, it emerged as Argentina's most important area of technological advancement in the Cold War period. Led through...

Nacion, colonialismo y modernidad en la declaracion de independencia del Peru (1821).
March 1, 2001... Al repasar el proceso de autonomizacion de cabildos y formacion de Juntas que, en el mundo hispano y en torno a 1810, siguio a la ocupacion francesa de la peninsula iberica de 1808, sabemos que la Audiencia de Lima no formo parte de dicho...

Hija de las Americas: Latin American themes in A Daughter's Geography and Liliane.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2001... Separated by more than a decade, the focus of A Daughter's Geography (1983) and Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter (1994), both by Notozake Shange, couldn't be more different, despite the commonality of the nature of the parent-child...

Rescatando las poetas hondurenas: locura y lucidez en Juana Pavon, Sara Salazar Melendez, Aida Ondina Sabonge Gutierrez y Maria Eugenia Ramos.(text in Spanish)
March 1, 2001... Me limito a reflexionar sobre la fuerza del sentido de la palabra poetica siempre que esta llega a expresarseme. (Gadamer, 70) I. INTRODUCCION En ninguna otra literatura es tan obvio el olvido, pernicioso o involuntario, de las mujeres...

From Guayaquil to Quito: three nineteenth-century travel narratives.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2001... Countless nineteenth-century international travelers climbed the hazardous Inca trail that led from the coastal city of Guayaquil up into the Andean highlands and then on to Ecuador's capital city of Quito. Scientific exploration, mountain...

Concepto y metafora en un poema de Jose Emilio Pacheco.(Text in Spannish)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2001... I En 1976, en un articulo titulado "Jose Emilio Pacheco: la poesia como Ready-Made" (1), Jose Miguel Oviedo senalo varios aspectos que empezaban a surgir o a marcarse a partir del poemario No me preguntes como pasa el tiempo (Mexico: Era,...

Literary excursion into the discomfort zone: a study of the adaptation from textual to visual representation in Gambaro's El desatino.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2001... Introduction Griselda Gambaro's fame as a brilliant Argentine dramatist overshadows her work as a skilled novelist. It is not well known that a portion of her acclaimed works are adaptations for the stage from narratives written earlier....

Las dos Venecias: de Puerto Rico a Italia.
March 1, 2001... Gotica caverna voluptuosa, en la noche emite vagidos guturales. Ataud luctuoso flotando a la deriva al ritmo de lugubres membranas. Rosario Ferre, "Venecia goyesca", Las dos Venecias. [T]he basilica-crypt monolith forms...

Teaching Latin American studies with Blackboard CourseInfo Web software.
March 1, 2001... I. Introduction This article describes how a Web-based course authoring software package (Blackboard CourseInfo) was used in the teaching of a survey course in Latin American studies. The changing nature of the educational technology...

Charles D. Ameringer. The Cuban Democratic Experience: the Autentico Years, 1944-1952.(Book Review)
March 1, 2001... Gainesville: U P of Florida, 2000. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8130-1755-6 (alk. Paper). In this book, winner of the 2001 MACLAS Whitaker Prize, Charles D. Ameringer brings a full scholarly apparatus to bear on an important eight-year period of Cuban...

MACLAS presidents, 1979/1980 to 1999/2002.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... MACLAS PRESIDENTS, 1979/1980 TO 1999/2002 1979-1980 Charles Ameringer (acting) Penn State University 1980-1981 Charles Ameringer Penn State University 1981-1982 Ivo Dominguez University of Delaware...

MACLAS secretary-treasurers: 1979-2002.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... MACLAS SECRETARY-TREASURERS: 1979-2002 1980-1983 Michael Burke Villanova University 1985-1987 Winthrop R. Wright University of Maryland 1988-1994 Alvin Cohen Lehigh University...