Wine writer RICHARD CALVER reveals the opening line to a column he didn't write in November, when he attended the Latin American Cultural and Gastronomic Festival, Edition VII. The facts got in the way.
National Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off on Friday, Sept. 15, bringing an opportunity to celebrate the history, culture and contributions of Hispanic Americans. In Eagle County, Fiesta Americas is providing an opportunity to celebrate Latin.
This event brings together prominent scholars of what can be described as the economic turn in Latin American Cultural Studies. Rethinking the role of aesthetics and narrative structures within the history of capitalism, they provide a nuanced outlook on the economic discourses and apparatuses that have defined capital accumulation in the region. In addition to a shared methodological approach that combines literary and economic analysis, the trait that distinguishes these studies is a concern with understanding the specificity of capitalism in Latin America. Troubled by the increased naturalization of extractivism and neoclassical theories during the neoliberal age, these body of works have provided a new critique of political economy through an engagement with the Latin American archive. They draw from Dependency Theory, neo-Keynesianism, and the Marxist traditions that shaped the field in the 1970s and 1980s, but they take these scholarships on new and productive intellectual paths
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