Latin America
Argentina
Area Handbooks
Argentina, a country study / Foreign Area Studies, the American University. GPO, 1985- . Reference F2808 .A74
Weil, Thomas E. Area handbook for Argentina. GPO, 1974. F2808 .W47 1974
Business
Argentina business : the portable encyclopedia for doing business with Argentina. World Trade Press, 1998. Reference HC175 .A844 1998
Doing business in Argentina [videorecording]. Big World, 1997.Media Collection: V4841 with guide.
Cinema and Television
Cinema
Foster, David William. Contemporary Argentine cinema. University of Missouri Press, 1992. PN1993.5.A7 F6 1992
Manrupe, Raúl. Un diccionario de films argentinos. Corregidor, 2001. PN1993.5.A7 M29 2001
Television
Absatz, Cecilia. Mujeres peligrosas : la pasión según el teleteatro. Stockcero.com, 2000.
A look at soap operas in Argentina.
Morgan, Michael. Democracy tango : television, adolescents, and authoritarian tensions in Argentina. Hampton Press, 1995. HQ799.2.T4 M67 1995
For a list of films from Argentina in the TCNJ collection, see the Foreign Films Subject Guide, or consult the online catalog.
The Disappeared
During the Dirty War (1976-1983), tens of thousands of Argentinians were "disappeared" (extra-judicially executed, secretly) by the Argentine dictatorship.
Arditti, Rita . Searching for life : the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina University of California Press, 1999. HV6322.3.A7 A74 1999
Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Revolutionizing motherhood : the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994. HV6322.3.A7 B68 1994
Fisher, Jo. Mothers of the Disappeared. South End Press, 1989. HV6322.3.A7 F57 1989
Rotker, Susana. Captive women : oblivion and memory in Argentina. University of Minnesota Press, 2002. F2822 .R67413 2002
Simpson, John . The disappeared and the Mothers of the Plaza : the story of the 11,000 Argentinians who vanished. St. Martin's Press, 1985. HV6433.A7 S57 1985
Taylor, Diana. Disappearing acts : spectacles of gender and nationalism in Argentina's "dirty war". Duke University Press, 1997. PN2451 .T28 1997 (lost)
Nunca más : the report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986. HV6433.A7 A74 1986
Videos:
Niños desaparecidos = Missing children. Cinema Guild, [199-?]. Media Room V3369
La voz de los pañuelos = The voice of the shawls. Media Room V3890
Guides
Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires : a cultural and literary companion. Interlink Books, 2000. F3001 .W68 2000
Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay : a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications, 1992- Reference F2808.5 .A725
Have 1999 ed.
History
Lewis, Daniel K..The history of Argentina. Greenwood Press, 2001.
Romero, Luis Alberto . Breve historia contemporánea
de la Argentina. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. F2848 .R66
1994
Literature
Dictatorship
Corbatta, Jorgelina .Narrativas de la Guerra Sucia en Argentina : Piglia, Saer, Valenzuela, Puig. Corregidor, 1999. PQ7798.26.I4 Z59 1999
Evangelista, Liria. Voices of the survivors : testimony, mourning, and memory in post-dictatorship Argentina, 1983-1995. Garland Pub., 1998. PQ7707.R47 E83 1998
Escrituras de sobrevivencia : narrativa argentina y dictadura. Beatriz Viterbo Editora : Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2001. PQ7798.23.O454 Z5567 2001
Ficción y política : la narrativa argentina durante el proceso militar / Daniel Balderston et al. Institute for the Study of Ideologies & Literature, University of Minnesota, 1987. PQ7703 .F53 1987
Jewish writers
Aizenberg, Edna .Books and bombs in Buenos Aires : Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish writing. University Press of New England, 2002. Copy received.
The silver candelabra & other stories : a century of Jewish Argentine literature. Latin American Literary Review Press, 1997. PQ7776.2.J49 S5 1997
Women writers
Cuentos de escritoras argentinas. Alfaguara, 2001. PQ7776.2.W65 C84 2001
Short stories by fourteen Argentinian women.
Kuhnheim, Jill S. Gender, politics, and poetry in twentieth-century Argentina. University Press of Florida, 1996. PQ7633 .K84 1996
A note on subject headings:
TCNJ uses a local subject heading beginning Argentine fiction..., which will retrieve fiction from Argentina (Library of Congress practice is to assign this type of heading only for collections, not for works by individual authors).
National Character
Giardinelli, Mempo. El país de las maravillas : los argentinos en el fin del milenio. Planeta, 1998. F2810 .G43 1998
Politics
Auyero, Javier . Poor people's politics : Peronist survival networks and the legacy of Evita. Duke University Press, 2001.
Giardinelli, Mempo. Diatriba por la patria : apuntes sobre la disolución de la Argentina. Ediciones B Argentina, 2002. F2849.2 .G454 2002
Plotkin, Mariano Ben. Mañana es San Perón : a cultural history of Peron's Argentina. F2849 .P5813 2002
El pensamiento político argentino contemporáneo. Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1994. F2848 .P439 1994
Readers
The Argentina reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo. Duke University Press, 2002. F2810 .A646 2002
Websites:
The Disappeared
http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html
http://www.yendor.com/vanished/
Bolivia
Business
Doing business in Bolivia . Price Waterhouse, 1988- HG5321.D6
Have 1998 ed.
Coca/Cocaine
Menzel, Sewall H. Fire in the Andes : U.S. foreign policy and cocaine politics in Bolivia and Peru . University Press of America , 1996.
Painter, James. Bolivia and coca : a study in dependency. Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1994. HD9019.C632 B6458 1994
Environment
Steinberg, Paul F. Environmental leadership in developing countries : transnational relations and biodiversity policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia . MIT Press, 2001. QH77.C8 S74 2001
Jews in Bolivia
Spitzer, Leo. Hotel Bolivia : the culture of memory in a refuge from Nazism. Hill and Wang, 1998. F3359.J47 S75 1998
Politics
Alexander, Robert J. Bolivia : past, present, and future of its politics. Hoover Institution Press, 1982. F3321 .A43 1982
Women
Stephenson, Marcia.Gender and modernity in Andean Bolivia . University of Texas Press, 1999. F3320.1.W65 S74 1999
Brazil
African Diaspora in Brazil
Nascimento, Abdias do. Africans in Brazil : a Pan-African perspective. Africa World Press, c1992. F2659.N4 N36 1992
Reinventing religions : syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers. Rowman & Littlefield, c2001. BL2490.R45 2001
Afro-Brazilian Religions : a selected annotated bibliography 1900-1997. Application ExplorerALM Secretariat,1998. BL2590.A7 O65 1998
Art
Lemos, Carlos Alberto Cerqueira. The art of Brazil . Harper & Row, 1983. N6650.L413 1983
Daily Life
Consumption intensified : the politics of middle-class daily life in Brazil. Duke University Press, 2002. HT690.B7 O36 2002
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy . Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil University of California Press, 1993. HV1448.B72 N677 1993
Education
Freire, Paulo. Education, the practice of freedom. Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1976. LC191 F7613 1976 (lost).
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of hope : reliving Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum, 1994. LB880.F732 P432 1994
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the city. Continuum, 1993. LA559.S29 F7413 1993
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the heart. Continuum, 1998. LC71 .F7413 1998
Gadotti, Moacir. Reading Paulo Freire : his life and work. State University of New York Press, 1994. LB880.F732 G34 1994
Feminism/Women/Gender
Rebhun, Linda-Anne. The heart is unknown country : love in the changing economy of northeast Brazil . Stanford University Press, 1999. HQ594.15.C37 R43 1999.
Saffioti, Heleieth Iara Bongiovani. Women in class society. Monthly Review Press, 1978. HQ1150.S213
Simpson, Amelia S. Xuxa : the mega-marketing of gender, race, and modernity. Temple University Press, 1993. PN1992.6.S48 1993.
Westfried, Alex Huxley. Reinventing the culture of womanhood in America and Brazil : an anthropological perspective : models for the 21st century, 1964-2001. University Press of America , 2002. HQ1542 W47 2002
Brazilian women speak : contemporary life stories [interviews edited and translated by] Daphne Patai. Rutgers University Press, 1993. HQ1542.B73 1993
Literature
Coutinho, Afrânio. An introduction to literature in Brazil . Columbia University Press, 1969. Remote Storage PQ9511 C6313
Martins, Wilson . The modernist idea; a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century. New York University Press, 1970. PQ9555 .M313 1970
Treece, David. The Babel guide to Brazilian fiction in English translation. Boulevard Books, 2001. PQ9603 T68 2001
Also accessible on the web at http://www.babelguides.com/
One hundred years after tomorrow : Brazilian women's fiction in the 20th century. Indiana University Press, c1992. PQ9677.E5 O56 1992
Music
Castro, Ruy . Bossa nova : the story of the Brazilian music that seduced the world. A Cappella, 2000. ML3487.B7 C39 2000
The music of the middle-class beach neighborhoods of Rio in the early 1960's. Immensely popular in the US at the same time.
Dunn, Christopher. Brutality garden : Tropicália and the emergence of a Brazilian counterculture. University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ML3487.B7 D86 2001
The politically charged experimental pop of the late sixties.
Schreiner, Claus. Música brasileira : a history of popular music and the people of Brazil . Marion Boyars, 1993. ML3575.B7 S313 1993
Vianna, Hermano. The mystery of samba : popular music & national identity in Brazil . University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ML3465.V5313 1999
Explores the use of music from Rio de Janeiro as a means of forging a unified Brazilian identity during the dictatorship of the 30's and 40's.
Police/Government Atrocities
Huggins, Martha Knisely. Violence workers : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities. University of California Press, 2002. HV8183 H84 2002
Politics
Ames, Barry. The deadlock of democracy in Brazil . University of Michigan Press, 2001. JL2492.A44 2001
Johnson, Ollie A. Brazilian party politics and the coup of 1964. University Press of Florida , 2001. On order.
Poverty
Perlman, Janice E. The myth of marginality : urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro. University of California Press, 1976. HN290.R47P47.
Race
Degler, Carl N. Neither Black nor white : slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States . University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Copy received.
Nobles, Melissa. Shades of citizenship : race and the census in modern politics. Stanford University Press, 2000. HT1523 N63 2000
Compares race and the census in Brazil and the U.S.
Sheriff, Robin E. Dreaming equality : color, race, and racism in urban Brazil . Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Skidmore, Thomas E. Black into white; race and nationality in Brazilian thought.
Stam, Robert. Tropical multiculturalism : a comparative history of race in Brazilian cinema and culture. Duke University Press, 1997. PN1993.5.B6 S7 1997
Twine , France Winddance. Racism in a racial democracy : the maintenance of white supremacy in Brazil . Rutgers University Press, 1998. F2659.N4 T86 1998
Religion
Chesnut, R. Andrew. Born again in Brazil : the Pentecostal boom and the pathogens of poverty. Rutgers University Press, 1997. BX8762.A45 B625 1997
Afro-Brazilian Religions : a selected annotated bibliography 1900-1997. BL2590.A7 O65 1998
Reinventing religions : syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers. Rowman & Littlefield, c2001. BL2490.R45 2001
Websites:
Brazil: Government
The web portal for the Federal government of Brazil.Includes daily news releases, basic socio-economic indicators and more.
Education:
The website of the Paulo Freire Institute. Portuguese with English translations.
Magazines:
In English
Brazilmax
"The Hip Gringo's guide to Brazil ". Published by an American expat in São Paulo . Articles on art, culture, music, business, economy, ecology, sports, and travel.
Brazzil
An informative web/print magazine in English on Brazil published in Los Angeles . Thoughtful feature articles for a popular audience.
In Portuguese
Istoe
A leading Brazilian newsweekly.
http://www.terra.com.br/istoe/
Music
Musica Brasileira
A site with many reviews and interviews done especially for the site. Both Portuguese and English. Covers popular music, with some classical music as well.
TV and Radio Stations:
Radios ao Vivo
Includes radio and television with webcasting. Divided by state.
Newspapers:
O Estado de Sao Paulo
The leading newspaper in Sao Paulo.
O Globo (The Globe)
The leading newspaper in Rio de Janeiro.
Chile
Area Handbooks
Chile, a country study. GPO, 1982- . Reference F3058 .C55 (3rd ed.)
Business
Pietrobelli, Carlo. Industry, competitiveness, and technological capabilities in Chile : a new tiger from Latin America? St. Martin's Press, 1998. HF1515 .P54 1998
Videos:
Doing business in Chile. Big World Inc., 1997. Media Room: V3249 with guide.
Encyclopedias
Bizzarro, Salvatore. Historical dictionary of Chile.
Guides
Chile & Easter Island : a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications, 1987- Reference F3059.5 .C52
Have 2000 ed.
History
Collier, Simon. A history of Chile, 1808-1994. Cambridge University Press, 1996. F3093 .C65 1996
Breve historia contemporánea de Chile / Osvaldo Silva Galdames. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995. F3081 |b .S54 1995
Rector, John L. The history of Chile. Greenwood Press, 2003. On order.
Literature
Neruda
Videos:
Pablo Neruda, poeta de Chile. Babbitt Instructional Resources, 1995. Media Room: V4449 and guides.
Yo soy Pablo Neruda. Films for the Humanities, 1993.Media Room:V3837.
Pinochet dictatorship
Dinges, John . The Condor years : how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. New Press, 2004. On order.
Ensalaco, Mark . Chile under Pinochet : recovering the truth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. On order.
Kornbluh, Peter .The Pinochet file : a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. New Press, 2003. F3101.P56 K67 2003
Politzer, Patricia. Fear in Chile : lives under Pinochet. Pantheon Books, 1989. HD8296.5 .P6513 1989
Spooner, Mary Helen.Soldiers in a narrow land : the Pinochet regime in Chile. University of California Press, 1994. F3100 .S66 1994
Verdugo, Patricia. Chile, Pinochet, and the caravan of death. North-South Center Press, 2001. F3101.A74 V47 2001
Videos:
La Batalla de Chile, la lucha de un pueblo sin armas = The battle of Chile : struggle of an unarmed people. First Run/Icarus Films. V5796.
Politics
Oxhorn, Philip.Organizing civil society : the popular sectors and the struggle for democracy in Chile. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. JL2681 .O94 1995
Women's movements
Baldez, Lisa. Why women protest : women's movements in Chile. Cambridge University Press, 2002. On order.
Fitzsimmons, Tracy . Beyond the barricades : women, civil society and participation after democratization in Latin America. Garland, 2000.
Voices of resistance : testimonies of Cuban and Chilean women / edited and translated by Judy Maloof. University Press of Kentucky, c1999. F1787.5 .M34 1999
Colombia
Area Handbooks
Colombia, a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. GPO, 1990- F2271 .C64
Coca/Cocaine
Chepesiuk, Ron . The bullet or the bribe : taking down Colombia's Cali drug cartel. Praeger, 2003. On order.
Crandall, Russell . Driven by drugs : U.S. policy toward Colombia. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. E183.8.C7 C83 2002
Porter, Bruce. Blow : how a smalltown boy made $100 million with the Medellín cocaine cartel and lost it all. HarperCollins, 1993. HV5825 .P625 1993
FARC
Tellez, Edgar. Diario íntimo de un fracaso : historia no contada del proceso de paz con las FARC. Planeta, 2002. On order.
State of war : political violence and counterinsurgency in Colombia / Human Rights Watch/Americas. Human Rights Watch, 1993. On order.
History
Bushnell, David. The making of modern Colombia : a nation in spite of itself. Univ. of California Press, 1993. F2271 .B78 1993
Music
Videos:
Shotguns and accordions : music of the marijuana growing regions of Colombia. Media Room: V5432.
Politics
Richani, Nazih .Systems of violence : the political economy of war and peace in Colombia. State University of New York Press, 2002. HN310.Z9 V5659 2002
Race
Peter Wade. Blackness and race mixture : the dynamics of racial identity in Colombia. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. On order.
Reference works
Davis, Robert H. Historical dictionary of Colombia. Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Ecuador
Business
Doing business in Ecuador. Price, Waterhouse Center for Transnational Taxation, c1981- HC201 .P7
History
Lara, Jorge Salvador. Breve historia contemporánea del Ecuador. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. F3735 .S25 1994
Literacy
Wogan, Peter. Magical writing in Salasaca : literacy and power in highland Ecuador. Westview Press, c2004. Copy received.
Politics
Gerlach, Allen. Indians, oil, and politics : a recent history of Ecuador. Scholarly Resources, 2002. F3738.2 .G47 2003
Paraguay
Area Handbooks
Paraguay, a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. G.P.O. 1990- F2668.P37
Have 1990 ed.
Bibliographies
Nickson, R. Andrew. Paraguay. Clio Press, 1999. F2668 .N53 1999
Business
Doing business in Paraguay. Price, Waterhouse, c1976- HC222 .P7
Have 1996 ed.
Guides
Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay : a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications, 1992- Reference F2808.5 .A725
Have 1999 ed.
Reference works
Nickson, R. Andrew. Historical dictionary of Paraguay. Scarecrow Press, 1993. F2664 .K64 1993
Peru
Area Handbooks
Peru, a country study / Foreign Area Studies, the American University. GPO, 1981- Reference F3408 .P47
4th ed. in Reference.
Business
Doing business in Peru. Price, Waterhouse, 1979- HC226 .P7
Coca/Cocaine
Menzel, Sewall H. Fire in the Andes : U.S. foreign policy and cocaine politics in Bolivia and Peru . University Press of America , 1996.
Morales, Edmundo. Cocaine : white gold rush in Peru. University of Arizona Press, 1989. HV5840.P46 M67 1989
History
Klarén, Peter Flindell. Peru : society and nationhood in the Andes. Oxford University Press, 2000. F3431 .K53 2000
Pease G.Y., Franklin. Breve historia contemporánea del Perú. Fondo de cultura económica, 1995. F3431 .P42 1995
Indians of Peru
Ossio, Juan M. Los Indios del Perú. Editorial MAPFRE, 1992. F3429 .O87 1992
Jews in Peru
Segal, Ariel. Jews of the Amazon : self-exile in earthly paradise. Jewish Publication Society, 1999. F3619.M47 S45 1999
Literature
Aibar, Edmundo Bendezú .La novela peruana : de Olavide a Bryce. Editorial Lumen, 1992. PQ8403 .B46 1992
Polar, Antonio Cornejo. La formación de la tradición literaria en el Perú. Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1989. PQ8311 .C67 1989
Polar, Antonio Cornejo. La novela peruana. Editorial Horizonte, 1989. PQ8397 .C67 1989
Politics
Peru in crisis : dictatorship or democracy? / edited by Joseph S. Tulchin, Gary Bland. L. Rienner Publishers, 1994. F3448.2 .P4735 1994
Peru under fire : human rights since the return to democracy / Americas Watch. Yale University Press, 1992. JC599.P4 P485 1992
Reference Works
Alisky, Marvin. Historical dictionary of Peru. Scarecrow Press, 1979.
Sendero Luminoso - Shining Path
Gorriti Ellenbogen , Gustavo. The Shining Path : a history of the millenarian war in Peru. University of North Carolina Press, 1999. F3448.2 .G6713 1999
Gorriti Ellenbogen , Gustavo. Sendero : historia de la guerra milenaria en el Perú. Editorial Apoyo, [1991- F3448.2 .G67 1991
Have v. 1 only.
McCormick, Gordon H. . The Shining Path and the future of Peru.
Poole,Deborah. Peru : time of fear. Latin American Bureau, 1992. F3448.2 .P66 1992
Shining and other paths : war and society in Peru, 1980-1995 / edited by Steve J. Stern. Duke University Press, 1998. F3448.2 .S53 1998
The Shining Path of Peru / edited by David Scott Palmer. St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Uruguay
Area Handbooks
Uruguay, a country study. GPO, 1971- Reference F2708 .U855
Latest ed. 1992.
Business
Doing business in Uruguay. Price, Waterhouse, c1979- Reference HC233 .P7
Guides
Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay : a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications, 1992- Reference F2808.5 .A725
Have 1999 ed.
Politics
Weinstein, Martin. Uruguay, democracy at the crossroads. Westview Press, 1988. F2728 .W43 1988
Weinstein, Martin. Uruguay : the politics of failure.
Repression, exile, and democracy : Uruguayan culture / edited by Saúl Sosnowski and Louise B. Popkin. Duke University Press, 1993. F2729 .R4613 1993
Venezuela
History
Morón, Guillermo. Breve historia contemporánea de Venezuela. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. F2321 .M63 1994
Oil industry
Coronil, Fernando.The magical state : nature, money, and modernity in Venezuela. University of Chicago Press, 1997. JL3831 .C67 1997
Politics
Venezuela in the wake of radical reform / edited by Joseph S. Tulchin with Gary Bland. L. Rienner, 1993. F2328 .V47 1993
Reference works
Rudolph, Donna Keyse. Historical dictionary of Venezuela. Scarecrow Press, 1996. F2304 .R8 1996
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