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Un Zapoteco Frente Al Reto: La Globalización Y La Desmitificación Del Indigenismo En Pancho Culebro Y Los Naguales De Tierra Azul De Mario Molina Cruz, Ida Day
Modern Languages Faculty Research
El surgimiento de la nueva generaci6n de escritores indigenas es uno de los fe n6menos actuales mas importantes dentro del ambito cultural latinoamericano. La misi6n de estos autores es la recuperaci6n de sus tradiciones nativas como un sistema etico altemativo para nuestra civilizaci6n: un gran desafio al para digma moderno de la expansion econ6mica. El prop6sito de este ensayo es ex plorar la contribuci6n de Mario Molina Cruz, uno de los escritores contemporaneos sobresalientes en los idiomas nativos de Mexico (Premio Nezahualc6- yotl 2006), al debate actual sobre los beneficios y las amenazas de la globaliza ci6n. Se examina su …
Dialogues With The Informal City: Latin America And The Caribbean, Ariel C. Armony, Adib Cure, Carie Penabad
Dialogues With The Informal City: Latin America And The Caribbean, Ariel C. Armony, Adib Cure, Carie Penabad
Center for Latin American Studies Publications
This publication, based on the symposium Dialogues with the Informal City: Latin America and the Caribbean, connects a range of fundamental themes affecting the current conditions and future of Latin America’s growing informal cities and, by extension, the rising global urban population. Informal cities can be described as settlements frequently characterized by organic physical patterns built incrementally over time as the needs and circumstances of a community change. While undeniably precarious in construction, informal cities exhibit underlying urban and architectural patterns of remarkable resilience; moreover, they reflect their inhabitants’ enduring cultural values. While seriously affected by poverty and violence, …