The Latin American Urban Experience
A proposed panel for the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies
(MACLAS) Conference
Submission deadline: Sept. 30, 2002
Conference will be held at Kutztown University, Kutztown, P.A. (Feb.
21-22, 2003)
Since the 1880's, with the entrance of Latin America into the world
economy, and throughout the twentieth century, Latin American cities
experienced unprecedented changes. As José Luis Romero states in
Latinoamérica: las ciudades y las ideas, "the population grew and
diversified, the activities of cities multiplied, the urban landscape was
modified, and the mentality of the different groups of urban societies
changed" (Siglo XXI: México, 1976: 249).
This panel will address the Latin American urban experience during the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as it appears in literary and other
texts. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. I am especially
interested in papers that address how foreign (European, U.S. American)
models and ideas influenced Latin American cities during this period of
change, and how the foreign and the national was mediated. Possible topics
are:
-migration
-women and the city
-walking in the city
-urban conflict, uprisings, riots
-foreign models, local challenges
-the cosmopolitan ideal
-tradition and modernity
Papers may be in English or Spanish. Please send a 250 word abstract to:
María Mercedes Andrade
Assistant Professor
Dept. Of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
C.U.N.Y. Baruch College
maria_andrade@baruch.cuny.edu
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