Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood. Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known and respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano and Nuyorican habitats; from turn of the century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence and dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera and Brazil’s move beyond monarchy; and from the precarious survival of Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (June 1996), this expanded edition includes a new introduction by Doris Sommer and a new essay by Vincente Rafael. Viewed together, these essays reveal a cultural richness that is sure to interest literary scholars and Latin Americanists alike.
Contributors. Carlos J. Alonso, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, John Beverley, Debra A. Castillo, Arcadio Diaz-Quiñones, Juan Flores, Mary M. Gaylord, José Limón, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello, Antonio Mazzotti, Walter D. Mignolo, Sylvia Molloy, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincente Rafael, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Roberto Schwarz, Diana Taylor, Nancy Vogeley
Автор: Lucy Bollington, Paul Merchant Название: Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human ISBN: 1683401492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683401490 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10659.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman.
Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil's War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia and Mexico. The essays illuminate how these cultural texts broach the limits between life and death, human and animal, technology and the body, and people and the environment. They also show that these works use the category of the human to address issues related to race, gender, inequality, necropolitics, human rights, and the role of the environment.Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human demonstrates that by focusing on the boundary between the human and nonhuman, writers, artists, and scholars can open up new dimensions to debates about identity and difference, the local and the global, and colonialism and power.
Описание: Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
Автор: Brodsky, Roberto Название: La casa que falta ISBN: 1433171422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433171420 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 14117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Enfrentando la censura y el autoritarismo de la йpoca, durante los aсos 80 Enrique Lihn dejу a un lado su producciуn poйtica para desplegar un conjunto de "proyectos locos", segъn la acertada defi niciуn de Christopher Travis, dando cuenta con ello de una radicalidad ъnica en el marco de la producciуn crнtica e intelectual de esos aсos. La casa que falta aborda, por primera vez, el conjunto de esos materiales desde la concepciуn de un "acto social total", segъn la defi niciуn dada por Lйvi-Strauss para los actos de lenguaje que exigen una interpretaciуn plena. Parodia, burla, provocaciуn y defensa cerrada de la autonomнa del arte transformaron la fi gura de Lihn en un nuevo tipo de hйroe dedicado a desplegar el discurso prohibido de la йpoca, inspirando a las nuevas generaciones que surgirбn con el regreso de la democracia a Chile el mismo aсo de su fallecimiento.
"A la admirable facultad verbal que caracterizу desde muy temprano la poesнa de Enrique Lihn, y que su desplegada producciуn posterior en todos los gйneros no hizo sino corroborar, responde desde este libro la facultad crнtica y expresiva del notable escritor y estudioso que es Roberto Brodsky. El tнtulo del libro de Brodsky, a primera vista algo enigmбtico, revela su plenitud de sentido cuando se completa el riguroso y sugerente recorrido que el autor realiza por la obra llevada a cabo por Enrique Lihn en Chile entre 1978 y 1988, aсo de su muerte, para fundamentar su conclusiуn de que esa incesante y versбtil tarea cumplida por el gran poeta en una sombrнa йpoca de desintegraciуn social, se revela en su totalidad como la acciуn del LEGISLADOR ANУMICO de la escena cultural, es decir, como el doctor y guнa ejemplar mбs infl uyente en su momento. El lector concluye asн que esa conducta propuso defi nitivamente un ejemplo cuya infl uencia permanece y no cesarб. Lo que representу Enrique Lihn en esos aсos es analizado por Roberto Brodsky con un consumado dominio teуrico, que conjuga felizmente la recurrencia a una vasta bibliografнa analнtica con una admirable capacidad expositiva, que la hace accesible para todos sus lectores. Sus formulaciones crнticas y las verifi caciones textuales y contextuales que le confi eren a su investigaciуn tan pleno sentido constituyen, pues, la lecciуn ejemplar de lectura que es este libro."--Pedro Lastra, poeta, ensayista, Profesor Emйrito en SUNY Stony Brook, y Miembro de la Academia Chilena de la Lengua
Описание: Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacon considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics, a philosophy originally grounded in pre-Columbian sacred conceptions of the cosmos, time, and place, and now expressed in creative writings. More specifically, she attends to Maya and Zapotec literary and cultural forms by theorizing kab'awil as an Indigenous philosophy. Tackling the political and literary implications of this work, Chacon argues that Indigenous writers' use of familiar genres alongside Indigenous language, use of oral traditions, and new representations of selfhood and nation all create space for expressions of cultural and political autonomy.
Chacon recognizes that Indigenous writers draw from universal literary strategies but nevertheless argues that this literature is a vital center for reflecting on Indigenous ways of knowing and as a key artistic expression of decolonization.
Название: Negotiating Space in Latin America ISBN: 9004380701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004380707 Издательство: Brill Цена: 23112.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In Negotiating Space in Latin America , edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. Drawing on cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, geography, history, literary studies, sociology, tourism, and current events, the volume advances innovative conceptualizations on spatiality and treats subjects that range from nineteenth century-nation formation to twenty-first century social movements. Latin America has endured multiple spatial transformations, which contributors analyze from the perspective of the urban, the rural, the market, and the political body. The essays collected here signal how spatial processes constantly shape societal interactions and illuminate the complex relationships between humans and space, emphasizing the role of spatiality in our actions and perceptions. Contributors: Gail A. Bulman, Ana Maria Burdach Rudloff, James Craine, Angela N. DeLutis-Eichenberger, Carolina Di Prospero, Gustavo Fares, Jennifer Hayward, Silvia Hirsch, Edward Jackiewicz, Magdalena Maiz-Pena, Lucia Melgar, Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Luis H. Pena, Jorge Saavedra Utman, Rosa Tapia, Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero, Tera Trujillo, Patricia Vilches, and Gareth Wood.
Автор: Leu Lorraine Название: Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro ISBN: 0822946009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822946007 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National Imaginary
Автор: Rafael Climent-Espino, Ana M. Gomez-Bravo Название: Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain ISBN: 0826522815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826522818 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13444.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These fourteen essays showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.
Автор: Rafael Climent-Espino, Ana M. Gomez-Bravo Название: Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain ISBN: 0826522823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826522825 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These fourteen essays showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.
Описание: Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for understanding oppositional agency and engaged literature in East and West Germany, where authors developed aesthetic solidarities that anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global. Through a combination of close readings, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Revolutionary Subjects traces the historicity and contingency of aesthetic practices, as well as the geocultural grounds against which they unfolded, in case studies of Volker Braun, F.C. Delius, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heiner Muller. The book’s cultural and comparative approach offers an antidote to imprecise engagements with the transnational, historicizing critical impulses that accompany the production of disciplinary boundaries. It paves the way for more reflexive debate on the content and method of German Studies as part of a broader landscape of world literature, comparative literature and Latin American Studies.
Описание: Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies. Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de Sig?enza y G?ngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.
Название: Re-mapping world literature ISBN: 3110549522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110549522 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 33414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How can we talk about World Literature if we do not actually examine the world as a whole? Research on World Literature commonly focuses on the dynamics of a western center and a southern periphery, ignoring the fact that numerous literary relationships exist beyond these established constellations of thinking and reading within the Global South.
Re-Mapping World Literature suggests a different approach that aims to investigate new navigational tools that extend beyond the known poles and meridians of current literary maps. Using the example of Latin American literatures, this study provides innovative insights into the literary modeling of shared historical experiences, epistemological crosscurrents, and book market processes within the Global South which thus far have received scant attention. The contributions to this volume, from renowned scholars in the fields of World and Latin American literatures, assess travelling aesthetics and genres, processes of translation and circulation of literary works, as well as the complex epistemological entanglements and shared worldviews between Latin America, Africa and Asia.
A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a must-read for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.
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