Hyphenated Identities in Postwar Latin America II: Popular and elite émigré cultural production in Argentina

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel is part of a series on hyphenated identities in post-Second World War Latin America, bringing together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds and regional focuses. The series challenges standard understandings of ethnicity, state, and nation by carrying the analysis into a period where similar scholarship is all but non-existent.

These papers focus on the cultural production of émigrés and migrant communities in Buenos Aires. They explore various elite and popular spaces within which the politics of transnational identification was negotiated. They expose both the porousness of community and national boundaries and the vibrant ways migrants constructed/challenged their new realities.

Sub Track

• Migration, Borders and Diasporas

Session Organizer

• Glen S Goodman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair

• Alma J Durán-Merk, Universität Augsburg

Individual Presentations

• The German-Argentinian Writer Robert(o) Schopflocher: Creating an Intercultural Space - Reinhard Andress, PhD, Loyola University Chicago

• "Model Immigrants?" Nationalist German Theater in Argentina, 1945-1965 - Robert V Kelz

• The Migration of Modernism: Visual Cultures of Critique in Postwar Argentina - Patricia A Simpson, Montana State University

• Rock’n’Roll, Tango & Italian Boogie Woogie: Transnational Music and Immigrant Life in Post-WWII Buenos Aires - Abril M Liberatori, York University

Discussant

• Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University