Improvised Continent : : Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange / / Richard Candida Smith, Richard Cándida Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Richard Candida,; Smith, Richard Cándida,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 27 illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Pan-American Culture
• Chapter 2. National Ways of Looking
• Chapter 3. “In the American Grain”
• Chapter 4. The Muralists Arrive
• Chapter 5. Responding to Global Crisis
• Chapter 6. Making Latin American Allies Visible
• Chapter 7. “Black Cat on a Field of Snow”
• Chapter 8. On the Road for the Good Neighbor Policy
• Chapter 9. Postwar Transitions: From “Exchange” to “Information”
• Chapter 10. Taking Sides in the Cold War
• Chapter 11. The New Latin American Novel in the United States
• Chapter 12. “I Now Believe That American Imperialism Is Real”
• Chapter 13. Exiting Pan-Americanism
• Chapter 14. A Twenty-First- Century American Epiphany
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments