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

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind

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

Fernando J. Rosenberg

　

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

Javier Guerrero

　

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

Alejandra Laera

　

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

Verónica Gago

　

5. Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0

Sayak Valencia

　

6. Formations of Sense

Horacio Legrás

　

7. What Is Popular Art?

Karen Benezra

　

8. Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms

Sarah Ann Wells

　

9. Literature and Revolution in Latin America

Juan E. De Castro

　

10. The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature

Benjamin Loy

　

11. The Political Art of Memory in Latin America

Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett

　

12. Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures

Arturo Arias

　

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

Victoria Liendo

　

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

Alejandra Uslenghi

　

Part II

Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies

15. Peopling Latin Americanism

Fernando Degiovanni

　

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

Jesús Cano Reyes

　

17. The Orient, the Rim, and the World

Rosario Hubert

　

18. Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection

Alexandra Ortiz Wallner

　

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

Mariano Siskind

　

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

Jens Andermann

　

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

Bruno Carvalho

　

22. Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo

Esther Whitfield

　

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

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

Lisa Blackmore

　

25. Ecocriticism

Gisela Heffes

　

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

Rachel Price

　

27. The Afterlives of Biopolitics

Gabriel Giorgi

　

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

Nicole Fadellin

　

29. Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation

Persephone Braham

　

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

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

　

31. A Horizontal Hospitality

Guillermina De Ferrari

　

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

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

　

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

Cecilia Macón

　

34. Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America

Anke Birkenmeier

　

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

Idelber Avelar

　

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

Luís Madureira

　

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

Gareth Williams

　

Part IV

Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices

38. Distorting Latinamericanism

Erin Graff Zivin

　

39. Sensationalism

Sergio Delgado Moya

　

40. Nature and Labor in Literary Form

Héctor Hoyos

　

41. Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital

Paloma Celis Carbajal

　

42. Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs

Gesine Müller

　

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

Antonia Viu

44. Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature

Michelle Clayton

　

45. New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil

Falina Enríquez

　

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

Marcela A. Fuentes

　

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

Natalia Brizuela

　

48. Media Archaeology and e-Literature

Phillip Penix-Tadsen

　

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

Scott Weintraub

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.