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Item Cultural Transmission and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-08-31) Borland, Elizabeth; Schoellkopf, Sarah A.; Ruediger, LeahScholars have studied how social movements shape cultural practices, but few have examined the impact of activists as cultural symbols. This paper examines the continued relevance of Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Mayo by analyzing fifteen years of newspaper coverage and referenced cultural objects. We found that depiction of the Madres varied depending on who created these objects. When Madres were producers, we found broadened claims. When they collaborated or approved, claims were more traditional. When Madres were not involved, sometimes they were parodied or commercialized. We argue that cultural transmission can help activists generate long-lasting social change.Item El otro y yo: Un cuento chino de Sebastián Borensztein(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-08-31) Cohen, DariaLa película argentina “Un cuento chino”, (2011) dirigida por Sebastián Borensztein, sirve como modelo del realismo mágico contemporáneo en términos de estética y contenido. Es la historia de Roberto, un ferretero cascarrabias, veterano de la Guerra de las Malvinas, que llega a tener una conexión inesperada con el otro, un chino inmigrante, Jun, perdido en Buenos Aires. “Un cuento chino” es una película que merece ser interpretada por su planteamiento de lo maravilloso como una parte natural y salvadora del mundo contemporáneo hostil y frío.Item Políticas de precios y comercialización agrícola durante la transición: experiencias y lecciones para Cuba(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-08-31) González Corzo, Mario A.Las políticas de precios y comercialización de productos agrícolas desempeñaron un importante papel durante las transiciones en los antiguos países socialistas. Estas transiciones agrícolas primordialmente se caracterizaron por el desmantelamiento, en algunos casos como China y Vietnam de forma gradual y calibrada y en otros de forma acelerada como en algunos países de Europa del Este y la Unión Soviética, del colectivismo, los subsidios estatales y los controles de precios y por mayores grados de participación de actores no-estatales en la comercialización de productos agrícolas. A pesar de notables diferencias estructurales y coyunturales, las experiencias de los antiguos países socialistas con relación las políticas de precios y comercialización de productos agrícolas ofrecen lecciones relevantes para Cuba a medida en que el país continúa “actualizando” su modelo económico, proceso en el cual las transformaciones agrícolas desempeñan un importante papel.Item Exile and Subversive Writing: A Fertile Soil for Critical Thinking: Encontros com a Civilização Brasileira, Cuadernos de Marcha and Controversia.(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-08-31) Pinheiro de Paula Couto, CristianoDuring the seventies, many Latin American intellectuals were forced to leave their home countries and sent into exile. By analyzing three cultural journals, namely Encontros com a Civilização Brasileira (1978–82), Cuadernos de Marcha in its second series (1979–85) and Controversia (1979–83), I develop the argument that the exile in Mexico of a Latin American intelligentsia segment, in the context of the Cold War, redirected the political ponderings of dissident intellectual groups toward a course of critical revision and reorganization of both political thought and praxis. Instead of bringing about the stagnation of thought or choking off democratic resistance, the distinctive atmosphere of anxiety, bewilderment, and frantic agitation favored the accumulation of a critical mass. I notice that these journals played an important role as sociability structures in the maintenance of Latin American intellectual networks. Since I am interested in the impact caused by exile in Mexico on the ideological strata and on the political intervention strategies of dissident intellectual groups from Latin America, I analyze texts published in these three periodicals to investigate how they worked as a space for resistance and intervention within the authoritarian context produced by repressive political regimes widespread on the subcontinent during the Cold War.Item Social Defiance and Liberation Won with a Musical Front: The Salvadoran Struggle(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-08-31) Thomas, Kaitlin E.This essay examines the production of protest music and its unique role in El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War as an outlet for activist inspiration, communal education, and clandestine propaganda. It will discuss how protest music was created and distributed with calculated ambitions in mind, an aspect of the socio-musical and socio-cultural experience little considered in regards to contemporary El Salvador.