Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production [Paperback]

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture.

Introduction: Approaches to Latin American Online Cultural Production  1. Cartographic Imaginaries: Mapping Latin(o) Americas Place in a World of Networked Digital Technologies  2. Reworking the Lettered City: The Resistant Re-territorialisation of Urban Place  3. From Macondo to Macon.doc: Contemporary Latin American Hypertext Fiction  4. Civilisation and Barbarism: New Frontiers and Barbarous Borders Online  5. Mestiz@ Cyborgs: The Performance of Latin American-ness as (Critical) Racial Identity  6. Revoluci?n.com? The Latin American Revolutionary Tradition in the Age of New Media (Revolutions)  Conclusion: Latin American Cultural Practice Online: A Continuing Dialogue Between Discourses

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: online digital culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practicel³'