Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies , also called Ibero-American Studies , is the science that traditionally deals with Latin American languages ​​and Latin American literature and culture. Latin American Studies explores all texts written or spoken in Spanish and Portuguese and all Spanish and Portuguese-speaking American cultures. Some Latin American institutes such as B. the LAI at the FU Berlin also have a social science focus.

The French-speaking areas of America ( Haiti , French Guiana, etc.) and English-speaking regions ( Belize , Jamaica, etc.) are not the subject of Latin American Studies. Insofar as it deals with Hispanic America , it is part of Hispanic Studies , with regard to Brazil it belongs to Lusitan Studies .

literature

• David Szanton (Ed.): The politics of knowledge: area studies and the disciplines . University of California Press, Berkeley et al. a. 2004, ISBN 0520245369 .
• Walther L. Bernecker, José M. López de Abiada (Ed.): Latin American Studies in Switzerland. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3893547312 .
• Dörte Ahrendt-Völschow: Latin American Studies at the University of Rostock from 1958 to 1995 (PDF; 615 kB). University of Rostock, Institute for Political and Administrative Sciences, Rostock 2004.
• Helen Delpar: Looking South; the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975. The Univ. of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 2008, ISBN 0817354646 .
• Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat (Hrsg.): Latin American Studies - the Austrian way. LIT, Münster u. a. 2005, ISBN 3825886514 .
• Horst Pietschmann : Latin American history as a historical sub-discipline. Attempt to determine your position. In: Historische Zeitschrift 248 (1989).
• Nikolaus Werz: Hamburg and its Latin American Studies: an outside view. In: Yearbook of Latin American History. Vol. 39, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002, pp. 395-408.

Web links

• Specialist portal cibera
• Latin America Competence Wiki - Encyclopedia for Latin American Studies
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (Bibliography), Library of Congress, Hispanic Division