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.
Author(s): Guillermina De Ferrari, Mariano Siskind
Series: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 540
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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. A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body
3. Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work
4. Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions
5. Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0
6. Formations of Sense
7. What Is Popular Art?
8. Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms
9. Literature and Revolution in Latin America
10. The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature
11. The Political Art of Memory in Latin America
12. Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures
13. Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations
14. Gisèle Freund’s Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography
Part II: Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies
15. Peopling Latin Americanism
16. Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War
17. The Orient, the Rim, and the World
18. Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection
19. Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries
20. The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form
21. Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age
22. Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo
23. Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture
Part III: A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations
24. Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows
25. Ecocriticism
26. Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film Petróleo cubano
27. The Afterlives of Biopolitics
28. Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
29. Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation
30. Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
31. A Horizontal Hospitality
32. Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America
33. The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa
34. Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America
35. Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetry and Prose Fiction
36. The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night
37. Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy
Part IV: Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices
38. Distorting Latinamericanism
39. Sensationalism
40. Nature and Labor in Literary Form
41. Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital
42. Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs
43. Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
44. Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature
45. New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil
46. Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations
47. Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts
48. Media Archaeology and e-Literature
49. Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking
Index
