Latin America and the History of the New World

1940 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 382
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
History Of

Language as a Key to Latin American Historiography

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-539
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

Latin americanists have in recent years become increasingly concerned with constructing the basis for a unified history of Latin America. Frequently this enterprise leads them to contemplate the even larger design of a history of the Americas. While the New World may still be, in Hegel’s words, “a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe,” it is now recognized as having an independent heritage; its history is no longer experienced as “only an echo of the Old World.”

Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Nava
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the history of African and Spanish musical fusions. In terms of race relations in the New World specifically, music has frequently been the occasion for an exchange of ideas and sounds that has brought together various cultures, transforming conflicting and clashing relations into harmonious streams of sound. Hence, lingering affinities from medieval Al-Andalus have been the inspiration for African and Spanish conjunctions and collaborations in modern times and have resulted in novel, hybrid inventions, everything from salsa and samba to funk and hip-hop. This chapter focuses on hip-hop within this context, though it also takes a look at the cultural soil of Latin America to appreciate the roots and branches of African and Spanish blends in the New World.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Yarí Pérez Marín
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
New World ◽  
Colonial Latin America ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Garcilaso De La Vega ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
History Of

This section reflects on the cross-fertilisation between science, medicine, literature and art in the consolidation of New World identity and discourse, beyond the sixteenth century. It invites readers to consider towering figures in the cultural history of colonial Latin America, such as writer Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, polymath Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and painter Miguel Cabrera, discussing some of their connections to earlier texts on anatomy and physiology. The epilogue makes a case for redefining the medical texts studied in Marvels of Medicine as early matrixes of colonial rhetoric, scientific and literary objects that charted a course for future colonial subjects’ sense of identity in relation to the larger context of global knowledge production.

scholarly journals Transcultured Architecture: Mudéjar’s Epic Journey Reinterpreted

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Ila Nicole Sheren
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Fernando Ortiz ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Art And Architecture

The Mudéjar phenomenon is unparalleled in the history of architecture. This style of architecture and ornamentation originated with Arab craftsmen living in reconquered medieval Spain. Embraced by Spanish Christians, Mudéjar traveled over the course of the next four centuries, becoming part of the architectural history of Latin America, especially present-day Mexico and Peru. The style’s transmission across different religions and cultures attests to its ability to unify disparate groups of people under a common visual language. How, then, did mudejar managto gain popularity across reconquered Spain, so much so that it spread to the New World colonies? In this article, I argue that art and architecture move more fluidly than ideologies across boundaries, physical and political. The theory of transculturation makes it possible to understand how an architectural style such as Mudéjar can be generated from a cultural clash and move to an entirely different context. Developed in 1947 by Cuban scholar and theorist Fernando Ortíz, transculturation posited means by which cultures mix to create something entirely new. This process is often violent, the result of intense conflict and persecution, and one culture is almost always defeated in the process. The contributions of both societies, however, coexist in the final product, whether technological, artistic, or even agricultural. I argue that mudejar in Latin America is a product of two separate transculturations: the adoption of Arab design and ornamentation by Spanish Christians, and the subsequent transference of these forms to the New World through the work of indigenous laborers.

Scheherazade in Chains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Frydman
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Literature ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One

The understudied archive of Muslim slave narratives demands a reconfiguration of the early history of New World Black literature, on the one hand asserting Arabic letters and Orientalist mediations as foundational discursive sources while on the other hand directing greater attention to narrative production in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Consistently marked in their time and ours by a racist dialectic of amnesia and surprise, these Muslim narrators draw upon devices of the Arab-Islamic tradition even as they anticipate the experiences of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation. In their enduring oscillation between obscurity and legibility, and in our own efforts to assemble their traces, we must confront and honor these narrators’ eventual retreat from interpellation, a reticence that vexes even as it structures the archive of the Global South Atlantic: resistant, dispersed, decentered, and opaque.

6. Changing patterns in the landscape

2016 ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Peter A. Furley
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
Landscape Changes ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns

Relentless population growth worldwide has significantly modified savanna landscapes. ‘Changing patterns in the landscape’ considers how landscape changes differ in Latin America, Africa, and Australasia. The appearance of many savannas has been greatly affected by evolving land use. Many of the landscapes in the New World have only been occupied for relatively short lengths of time and settled only in the most favourable locations. The Old World by contrast, from Africa through India and East Asia to Australia, has experienced a long history of nomadic movement and occupation. The growth of cities in the savanna and the greatly increased pace of urbanization have placed enormous pressures on this land.

Introduction to Part I: Time and its Transformations from the Old World to the New

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Doors

‭The four articles in Part I, Time and its Transformations from the Old World to the New, suggest that as Christianity was transmitted to the New World, this transmission necessitated new ways of conceiving of time and history. The articles thus point to new ways of thinking about the legacy of Christianity in Latin America. They also lead to a re-envisioning of the wider history of the Christian faith, a vision similarly expressed by artist Robert Graham on the doors of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.‬

scholarly journals O legado do concílio e os sinais do nosso tempo

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (263) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Alberto Da Silva Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Power System ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
New World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Church

O Concílio Vaticano II com seu espírito ineludível de confiança e abertura fez acreditar que uma nova Igreja e um novo mundo eram possíveis. Dentre as mudanças que provocou, o deslocamento da Igreja para fora do seu eixo foi talvez a mais importante. A Igreja não existe para si, mas para o mundo; não há duas, mas apenas uma história de salvação ou de perdição, e os discípulos de Cristo estão dentro dela. Dentre as contradições que o Concílio não resolveu, a maior talvez foi ter deixado intacto o sistema de poder na Igreja. Passados 41 anos, desde a sua recriação inovadora na América Latina, o que restou desse espírito de abertura e coragem?Abstract: Thanks to its unequivocal spirit of trust and openness the Vatican II Council made us believe that a new Church and a new world were possible. Among the changes stimulated by the Council, the displacement of the Church from its axle may have been the most important one. The Church does not exist for itself, it exists for the world; there is just one history of salvation or perdition, not two and Christ’s disciples are within it. Among the contradictions the Council left unresolved, the greatest may have been the fact that it left the Church’s power system intact. Forty one years since its innovative recreation reached Latin America, what remains of that spirit of trust and courage?

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