2003 Volume 4 Number 2

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Vol. 4, No. 2, December 15, 2003

Editorial

This number includes two articles and three book reviews. Dr. Hugo Hortiguera of Griffith University, Australia, analyzes the influence of popular fictional genres, such as the detective novel, upon Argentine journalism during the years of Dr. Carlos S. Menem’s government. Dr. Evelyn D. Ravuri, professor of Geography at Central Michigan University, assesses the impact of the creation of Ciudad Guayana on immigration to and from Bolívar State, Venezuela between 1950 and 1990. In a review of two books by Carlos Altamirano and one by Altamirano and Beatriz Sarlo, Flavia Fiorucci of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva, places these texts within the context of sociological studies of Peronism. Vera Blinn Reber, Professor of History at Shippensburg University, reviews Robert Scheina’s study of Latin American Wars between 1791 and 1899. Mark Wasserman praises Jeffrey M. Pilcher for collecting well-written articles by young scholars on the cutting edge of their disciplines and for publishing them in The Human Tradition in Mexico (2003). Wasserman singles out the biographical articles about women from colonial to modern times as being especially useful for the new insights into Latin American history that their lives afford. Thus, this present volume examines Latin America within a vast continental context and within the most specific context of a single city.

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    El folletín delictuoso argentino: Discurso periodístico y géneros populares en los umbrales del nuevo milenio 
    (Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-12-15) Hortiguera, Hugo
    En el presente estudio, nos proponemos describir cómo la relación siempre conflictiva entre la ficción y la realidad política argentina parece tensarse en los umbrales del nuevo milenio, creando un tipo discursivo que, escrito por periodistas, pareciera deconstruir, muchas veces, estas categorías. Analizaremos entonces cómo este tipo de relato periodístico, en su afán por describir el hecho político, constituye un espacio intersticial en donde parecen fundirse los límites de géneros literarios considerados “menores” como el policial y el folletín. Tomando como ejemplo algunos textos de investigación periodística escritos en la última década, se describirá cómo se construye ese espacio fronterizo, cuáles son sus características y sus efectos discursivos en el campo socio-cultural. 
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    Reassessing the Guayana Project: Migration to and from Bolívar State, Venezuela, 1950-1990
    (Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-12-15) Ravuri, Evelyn D.
    The concentration of population in the capital cities of developing countries by the mid twentieth century prompted several of these countries to embark on elaborate population redistribution projects. Ciudad Guayana, a city in Southeastern Venezuela, was one such project designed to produce a more equitable distribution of population and economic resources throughout the country. This paper examines changes in the origin and destination states of in and outmigrants to and from Bolívar State (the location of Ciudad Guayana) and the other 22 states of Venezuela from before the implementation of the Guayana Project in 1950 to 1990, the latest census, to determine the effect that the new city had on the attraction of inmigrants from other states as well as the retention of possible outmigrants from Bolívar State.
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    On "Bajo el signo de las masas", "Peronismo y cultura de la izquierda", "La batalla de las ideas"
    (Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-12-15) Fiorucci, Flavia
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    On "Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899" Vol I
    (Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-12-15) Reber, Vera Blinn
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    On "The Human Tradition in Mexico"
    (Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-12-15) Wasserman, Mark