Segre México Noir

Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78707-826-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Web PDF

These essays by critics, theorists and artists explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of ‘negrura-oscuridad’ in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile staging of atrocities, the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic and the consolidation of forensically inspired art-making. In the wake of Walter Benjamin’s ‘unfinished’ thinking structures, this volume operates through contiguous directions, transitions and regressions, incorporating images as part of the discussion of a ruinous visuality. Its polycentric mesh covers a wide range of art, writing, photography and film: from ritual uses of the ‘darksome’ and its legacies in pre-Hispanic cultures to colonial religious iconography of penitential blindness; from narco-noir in the novels of Roberto Bolaño and Yuri Herrera to techno-noir in dystopian border films; from the quotidian taxonomy of horror expurgated in art practice to the haunted ‘other darkness’ of the photographic blink. It also explores how we can contest the threat of dark ecology and ‘horrorism’ through sense expansion within new media and by positing fruitful blind spots in text and art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segre, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ERICA SEGRE (ed.)

Introduction: La negrura- oscuridad y su imagen: Rethinking the Poetics of Darkness and Dark Materials in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture in Mexico

DEBBIE NAGAO

Proscenium of the Dark: Darkness and Liminality in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

ANDREW CHEN

Blindness, Darkness and the Penitential Religious Experience: Practices and Imagery from the Flagellant Confraternal Contexts in Italy, Spain and New Mexico

GERARDO SUTER

Blink: A Path to the Other Darkness

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

Los materiales ajenos: Re-escritura, comunalidad y desapropiación/ Estranged Materials: Re-writing, Communality and Dis-appropriation (Cambridge 2015)

Escrituras comunalistas/On Communalistic Writing



ELSA M. TREVIÑO

¡Basta de luz!: Configurations of Revelatory Darkness in Twenty-First Century Fiction

STEVEN BOLDY

Trabajos del poeta del reino: Dark Power and Art in Yuri Herrera and Octavio Paz

MARCOS RICO DOMÍNGUEZ

Oscuro artefacto de la memoria: Huecos, pliegues y cortes en Amuleto (1999) de Roberto Bolaño/Obscure Artefact of Memory: Gaps, Folds and Cuts in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet (1999)

JOHN KRANIAUSKAS

A Monument to the Unknown Worker: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (2004) as Noir and as Installation

JOSÉ LUIS BARRIOS

De estupidez y oscuridad: La sujeción y subversión en el cine y la literatura en México/ Of Stupidity and Darkness: Subjection and Subversion in Mexican Film and Literature

GEOFFREY KANTARIS

Techno-Noir in the Borderlands: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008)

ROBIN GREELEY

Narco-Noir: A Quotidian Aesthetic Taxonomy of Expressive Violence (with reference to Moris [Israel Meza Moreno])



MARA POLGOVSKY

After Darkness: Sense-Expansion and the Aesthetics of New Media