1st Edition

Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era

Edited By Matthew Bush, Tania Gentic Copyright 2016
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this book visits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in dialogue with the newest media, including videogames, blogs, electronic literature, and social... Read more

Introduction: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era  Tania Gentic and Matthew Bush  Part I: Technologies in Letters  1. Media Ecstasy, La tía Julia y el escribidor and the Unbearable Glare of Porno-graphy  Sara Castro-Klaren  2. Into the Screen: Inhabiting Media with Mario Levrero  Matthew Bush  3. A Farewell to the Future: Discursive and Visual Representations of Science and Technology in Argentinean Culture  Silvia G. Kurlat Ares  4. Googling McOndo: Papered Multimedia and the Aesthetics of Reading with the Internet  J. Andrew Brown  5. Of Loves and Crimes: Novel, Film, Hypertext  Stefano Tedeschi  6. The Telltale Computer: Obsolescence and Nostalgia in Chile after Alejandro Zambra  Héctor Hoyos  Part II: Technologies of Letters  7. Declassifying the Archive: The Bombardment of La Moneda Palace and the Political Economy of the Image  César Barros A.  8. Poetry in the Age of Digital Reproduction  Daniel Link  9. Holographic Buenos Aires: Urban Memory and New Technologies of Envisioning  Rebecca E. Biron  10. Variations of "Frida": Graciela Iturbide, Mario Bellatin, and La Chica Boom  Ángeles Donoso Macaya  11. Latin American Game Design and the Narrative Tradition  Phillip Penix-Tadsen  12. The Aesthetics of Keyboard Shortcuts  Craig Epplin  13. How to Be a Primitive in the Technological Era  Graciela Montaldo  Afterword: Mario Bellatin’s Writing Machines  Edmundo Paz Soldán

Biography

Matthew Bush is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Lehigh University, USA.



Tania Gentic is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, USA.