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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms

Edited By Guillermina De Ferrari, Mariano Siskind Copyright 2023
    540 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    540 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume.

    Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture.

    This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind

    　

    Part I

    Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations

    1. Avant-Gardes in Latin America: A Polemical Intervention on Historical and Neo-Vanguardias

      2. Fernando J. Rosenberg

      　

    2. A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body

      3. Javier Guerrero

      　

    3. Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work

      4. Alejandra Laera

      　

    4. Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions

      5. Verónica Gago

      　

    5. Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0

      6. Sayak Valencia

      　

    6. Formations of Sense

      7. Horacio Legrás

      　

    7. What Is Popular Art?

      8. Karen Benezra

      　

    8. Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms

      9. Sarah Ann Wells

      　

    9. Literature and Revolution in Latin America

      10. Juan E. De Castro

      　

    10. The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature

      11. Benjamin Loy

      　

    11. The Political Art of Memory in Latin America

      12. Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett

      　

    12. Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures

      13. Arturo Arias

      　

    13. Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations

      14. Victoria Liendo

      　

    14. Gisèle Freund’s Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography

      15. Alejandra Uslenghi

      　

      Part II

      Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies

    15. Peopling Latin Americanism

      16. Fernando Degiovanni

      　

    16. Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War

      17. Jesús Cano Reyes

      　

    17. The Orient, the Rim, and the World

      18. Rosario Hubert

      　

    18. Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection

      19. Alexandra Ortiz Wallner

      　

    19. Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries

      20. Mariano Siskind

      　

    20. The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form

      21. Jens Andermann

      　

    21. Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age

      22. Bruno Carvalho

      　

    22. Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo

      23. Esther Whitfield

      　

    23. Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture

      24. Charlotte Rogers

      　

      Part III

      A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations

    24. Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows

      25. Lisa Blackmore

      　

    25. Ecocriticism

      26. Gisela Heffes

      　

    26. Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film Petróleo cubano

      27.

      Rachel Price

      　

    27. The Afterlives of Biopolitics

      28. Gabriel Giorgi

      　

    28. Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

      29. Nicole Fadellin

      　

    29. Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation

      30. Persephone Braham

      　

    30. Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures

      31. Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

      　

    31. A Horizontal Hospitality

      32. Guillermina De Ferrari

      　

    32. Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America

      33. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

      　

    33. The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa

      34. Cecilia Macón

      　

    34. Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America

      35. Anke Birkenmeier

      　

    35. Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetry and Prose Fiction

      36. Idelber Avelar

      　

    36. The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night

      37. Luís Madureira

      　

    37. Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy

      38. Gareth Williams

      　

      Part IV

      Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices

    38. Distorting Latinamericanism

      39. Erin Graff Zivin

      　

    39. Sensationalism

      40. Sergio Delgado Moya

      　

    40. Nature and Labor in Literary Form

      41. Héctor Hoyos

      　

    41. Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital

      42. Paloma Celis Carbajal

      　

    42. Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs

      43. Gesine Müller

      　

    43. Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

      44. Antonia Viu

    44. Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature

      45. Michelle Clayton

      　

    45. New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil

      46. Falina Enríquez

      　

    46. Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations

      47. Marcela A. Fuentes

      　

    47. Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts

      48. Natalia Brizuela

      　

    48. Media Archaeology and e-Literature

      49. Phillip Penix-Tadsen

      　

    49. Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking

    Scott Weintraub

    Index

    Biography

    Guillermina De Ferrari is Halls-Bascom Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has published extensively on Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (2007), Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (2014), and Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today (2015). She is coeditor of the Routledge series Literature and Contemporary Thought.

    Mariano Siskind is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (2014), Rumo a um cosmopolitismo da perda. Ensaio sobre o fim do mundo (2020) and The Modernist Songbook. Standards y variaciones sobre formas muertas (2021). He has edited Homi Bhabha's Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos (2013) and has coedited with Sylvia Molloy Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006); with Gesine Müller, World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise (2019). In 2022 he will publish the collection of essays Dislocaciones y fin de eso que ya no es mundo, and is working on another one, tentatively titled About the End of the World: The Demise of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture.

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