Child Jack Child

Miniature Messages (eBook, PDF)

The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps

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Produktbeschreibung

In Miniature Messages, Jack Child analyzes Latin American postage stamps, revealing the messages about history, culture, and politics encoded in their design and disseminated throughout the world. While postage stamps are a sanctioned product of official government agencies, Child argues that they accumulate popular cultural value and take on new meanings as they circulate in the public sphere. As he demonstrates in this richly illustrated study, the postage stamp conveys many of the contestations and triumphs of Latin American history.Child combines history and political science with philatelic research of nearly forty thousand Latin American stamps. He focuses on Argentina and the Southern Cone, highlighting stamps representing the consolidation of the Argentine republic and those produced under its Peronist regime. He compares Chilean stamps issued by the leftist government of Salvador Allende and by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Considering postage stamps produced under other dictatorial regimes, he examines stamps from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. Child studies how international conflicts have been depicted on the stamps of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, and he pays particular attention to the role of South American and British stamps in establishing claims to the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and to Antarctica. He also covers the cultural and political history of stamps in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Grenada, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela and elsewhere. In Miniature Messages, Child finds the political history of modern Latin America in its "e;tiny posters."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822389279
• Artikelnr.: 54930194

Autorenporträt

Jack Child is a professor in the Department of Language and Foreign Studies at American University in Washington. He is the author of many books and articles on Latin American culture, translation, and geopolitics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Semiotics, Popular Culture, Politics, and Stamps 13
2. An Overview of Latin American Postage Stamps 43
3. Internal Politics and Latin American Stamps 57
4. International Relations and Latin American Stamps 75
5. Argentina 95
6. The Falklands/Malvinas 124
7. South American Antarctica 142
8. Other Miniature Messages of Note 161
Conclusions 190
Notes 197
General Index 225
Index of Stamps 235