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

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-28595-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and General

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Ferrari, Guillermina

Siskind, Mariano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind



Part I

Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations

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

Fernando J. Rosenberg



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

Javier Guerrero



- Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work

Alejandra Laera



- Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions

Verónica Gago



- Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0

Sayak Valencia



- Formations of Sense

Horacio Legrás



- What Is Popular Art?

Karen Benezra



- Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms

Sarah Ann Wells



- Literature and Revolution in Latin America

Juan E. De Castro



- The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature

Benjamin Loy



- The Political Art of Memory in Latin America

Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett



- Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures

Arturo Arias



- Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations

Victoria Liendo



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

Alejandra Uslenghi



Part II

Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies

- Peopling Latin Americanism

Fernando Degiovanni



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

Jesús Cano Reyes



- The Orient, the Rim, and the World

Rosario Hubert



- Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection

Alexandra Ortiz Wallner



- Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries

Mariano Siskind



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

Jens Andermann



- Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age

Bruno Carvalho



- Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo

Esther Whitfield



- 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

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

Lisa Blackmore



- Ecocriticism

Gisela Heffes



- Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film Petróleo cubano

Rachel Price



- The Afterlives of Biopolitics

Gabriel Giorgi



- Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nicole Fadellin



- Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation

Persephone Braham



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

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros



- A Horizontal Hospitality

Guillermina De Ferrari



- Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes



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

Cecilia Macón



- Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America

Anke Birkenmeier



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

Idelber Avelar



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

Luís Madureira



- Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy

Gareth Williams



Part IV

Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices

- Distorting Latinamericanism

Erin Graff Zivin



- Sensationalism

Sergio Delgado Moya



- Nature and Labor in Literary Form

Héctor Hoyos



- Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital

Paloma Celis Carbajal



- Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs

Gesine Müller



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

Antonia Viu

- Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature

Michelle Clayton



- New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil

Falina Enríquez



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

Marcela A. Fuentes



- Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts

Natalia Brizuela



- Media Archaeology and e-Literature

Phillip Penix-Tadsen



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

Scott Weintraub

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.