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It is surely one of the ironies of history that the 'Latin American' states, comprising territories conquered and colonised by 'Latin' Europeans which subsequently achieved independence under rulers of European descent, were subsequently relegated, by the growth to dominance of the U.S. and its 'Monroe Doctrine', to become (according to some definitions) part of the 'Third World'. It was perhaps less ironic than inevitable that the Caribbean islands, whose indigenous people perished under the impact of the European conquest and were replaced by slaves shipped from Africa, would become an outpost of the 'Third World' in the West: such was the price to be paid for decolonisation and rejecting white rule. Yet what could have been more ironic than Cuba's becoming a bastion of Communism on the doorstep of the U.S? Geographically speaking, it makes no sense at all to categorise Latin American and Caribbean arts as 'non-Western'; on the other hand; their manifold distinctiveness tends to be perceived by Westerners as exotic and 'other': like non-Western arts, and indeed like much Western art which is the work of ethnic and other 'minorities' and 'outsiders', they have been marginalised an

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 0307-4722)

Published

1995

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)