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

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

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

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

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

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032285955
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/04/2024
Series: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Pages: 540
Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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