Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and major cultural institutions, brought many of the most important artists and writers of Latin America to live and work in the United States.Improvised Continent is the first book to focus on cultural exchange inside the United States and how Americans responded to Latin American…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-9465-1
- EAN: 9780812294651
- Produktnummer: 24022797
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'919 KB
- Abbildungen: 27 illus.
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