Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcés has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history.

The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.

With contributions by:

Nayibe Bermudez Barrios Norman Cheadle Rita De Grandis Elizabeth Montes Garces Paola Hernandez Myriam Osorio Claudine Potvin Mercedes Rowinsky-Guerts Catherine Den Tandt Luis Torres Richard Young

Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She is the author of El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago (1997) and of numerous articles published in prestigious journals such as Texto crítico, Letras Femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Anuario de Letras, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. She is editor of Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (2007: University of Calgary Press). She is currently at work on a book on the relationship between body and text in the works of four Latin American female writers: Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa, and Laura Restrepo.

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Norman Cheadle is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at Laurentian University. His publications include The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal (Tamesis, 2000). He is currently working on a SSRHC-funded project to produce a critical edition of Leopoldo Marechal’s Adán Buenosayres in English translation.

Québécois d’origine et Franco-Ontarien d’adoption, Lucien Pelletier est présentement professeur agrégé au Département de philosophie de l’Université de Sudbury. Il a consacré de nombreux articles à l’esthétique, à la philosophie de la religion et à la philosophie politique contemporaine d’Allemagne et de France. Il a aussi traduit plusieurs ouvrages philosophiques de l’allemand au français.

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