Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange

Richard Cándida Smith

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Improvised Continent

Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange

Richard Cándida Smith

In the series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294651

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About this book

In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith synthesizes over seventy years of Pan-American cultural activity in the United States and shows how Latin American artists and writers challenged U.S. citizens about their place in the world and about the kind of global relations the country's interests could allow.

Author information

Richard Candida Smith is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of several books, including The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Poets, painters, policymakers, and others wrestle over pan-American hopes and disappointments in Richard Cándida Smith's illuminating and thoughtful work. Spanning the twentieth century, and ranging across diverse sources in four languages, Improvised Continent brings new cultural and intellectual depth to the history of Latin American and U.S. relations."—Brooke L. Blower, Boston University

"Count Richard Candida Smith among the best of those scholars doing transnational history. Improvised Continent is a brilliant investigation of U.S. and Latin American intellectuals and artists who formed networks that the United States used for its cultural diplomacy. But as Candida Smith deftly shows, there was an irony in cultural imperialism, as these intellectuals and artists served not only to teach U.S. audiences about the rest of the Americas. They also served as critics of American society and offered up a distinctly robust liberalism rooted in the utopia of pan-Americanism."—Andrew Hartman, author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Pan-American Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 2. National Ways of Looking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3. “In the American Grain” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter 4. The Muralists Arrive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 5. Responding to Global Crisis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 6. Making Latin American Allies Visible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 7. “Black Cat on a Field of Snow” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 8. On the Road for the Good Neighbor Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 9. Postwar Transitions: From “Exchange” to “Information” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 10. Taking Sides in the Cold War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 11. The New Latin American Novel in the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Chapter 12. “I Now Believe That American Imperialism Is Real” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Chapter 13. Exiting Pan-Americanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Chapter 14. A Twenty-First- Century American Epiphany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 27 illus.
Keywords: Cultural Studies; American History; Latin American Studies; Caribbean Studies; American Studies

eBook

Published: August 25, 2017
ISBN: 9780812294651