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Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader book cover

1st Edition

Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader

Edited By Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O'Bryen, David Wood Copyright 2018
460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge
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Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia) , this book surveys the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century since the Journal 's foundation in 1992. Emerging at a moment of crisis of revolutionary narratives, and at the... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Temporalities

1. War and Cultural Studies: Reflections on Recent Work in Peru and Argentina William Rowe

2. The Reconfigurations of Post-dictatorship Critical Thought Nelly Richard

3. For whom the eye cries: Memory, monumentality, and the ontologies of violence in Peru Paulo Drinot

4. The Last Sacred Image of the Latin American Revolution Mariano Mestman

Part II: Territories

5. Hemispheric Domains: 1898 and the Origins of Latin Americanism Julio Ramos

6. Patagonia as Borderland: Nature, Culture, and the Idea of the State Gabriela Nouzeilles

7. The Return of Coatlicue: Mexican nationalism and the Aztec past Jean Franco

8. A Short Andean History of Photography: Yawar Fiesta John Kraniauskas

9. Cuba: A curated culture Guillermina De Ferrari

Part III: Aesthetics

10. Argentina’s secret poetry boom Néstor Perlongher

11. Tin Tan: the Pachuco Carlos Monsiváis

12. (Queer) boleros of a tropical night José Quiroga

13. Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the coding of nationality in sound Idelber Avelar

Part IV: Affects

14. Sabina’s Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889–1930 Tiago de Melo Gomes and Micol Seigel

15. Mob Outrages: Reflections on the media construction of the masses in Venezuela (April 2000–January 2003) Luis Duno Gottberg

16. The City Cross-dressed: Sexual Rights and Roll-backs in De la Rúa’s Buenos Aires Ana Gabriela Álvarez

17. Conspicuous Consumption and the Performance of Identity in Contemporary Mexico: Daniela Rossell’s Ricas y famosas Elaine Luck

Part V: Cityscapes

18. From Urb of Clay to the Hypodermic City: Improper cities in Modern Latin America Marzena Grzegorczyk

19. Obverse Colonization: São Paulo, global urbanization and the poetics of the Latin American city Justin A. Read

20. Favelas and the Aesthetics of Realism: Representations in film and literature Beatriz Jaguaribe

21. Amores Perros: Exotic violence and neoliberal fear Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado

Part VI: Medialities

22. Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse' Quetzil Castañeda

23. Material Culture, Slavery, and Governability in Colonial Cuba: The humorous lessons of the cigarette Marquillas Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

24. Indigenous media and the end of the lettered city Freya Schiwy

25. Subjective displacements and ‘reserves of life’ Ivana Bentes

Biography

Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O’Bryen and David M. J. Wood are Editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

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