Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

In This IssueAuthor(s): Susan LarsonSource: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 9 (2005), p. 7Published by: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641740 .

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Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

In This Issue

As a practice, Cultural Studies emerged from a literary critical tradition that saw popu lar culture as a threat to the cultural standards of modern civilization. The work of the

founding members of Cultural Studies breaks with many of the assumptions of Literary Studies in order to examine the everyday and the ordinary: those aspects of our lives that

exert such a powerful and unquestioned influence on our existence that we take them for

granted. One of these hidden influences is the cultural marketplace, a literal and figurative

space that has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. This volume features "Market

Matters," a special collection of essays outlining the nature of the relationship between

commerce and culture in Latin America and Spain since the beginning of the twentieth

century. Guest Editors Christine Henseler and Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola have put to

gether a series of articles in an effort to retheorize the position literature holds in a broader

cultural marketplace where international mega-mergers give an ever-shrinking number of

individuals control over what gets published and how new literary trends and canons are

formed. In the Hispanic world, have publishers given in to the demands of the global

marketplace instead of thinking of themselves as the guardians of critical, demanding but necessary national discourses? How do the publishing industries of Latin America

and Spain play off of one another? What is the meaning of literary representations of the

Spanish-language book trade? All of the authors participating in this collection attempt to

answer these important questions which are becoming increasingly difficult to answer.

The rest of our 2005 volume attests to the ever-widening theoretical, geographical and

temporal range of Hispanic Cultural Studies, with essays on such topics as women s par

ticipation in Brazilian capoeira, the significance of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorcas

assassination in the formation of present-day commemorations of the Spanish Civil War,

evolving notions of masculinity in Argentine photography, Picasso's intellectual and visual

relationship to La Celestina and Manuel Vazquez Montalban's running critique on Spanish tourism and Leftist politics. The editors of the Arizona Journal continue to leave the doors

of the publication as wide open as possible to invite the circulation of new and sometimes

competing ideas about where the discipline of Hispanic Cultural Studies is going. In this

way our contributors continue to define by example what it means to engage in the disci

pline. We look forward to where they take us next.

Susan Larson

Managing Editor

University of Kentucky

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