After Human Rights - Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010

Explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Rosenberg grounds his study in discussions of literature, film, and visual art. In doing so, he provides an examination of the paradoxical demands on current artistic works to produce both capital value and foster human dignity.

About the author

Fernando J. Rosenberg is associate professor in the department of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America.

Summary

Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century.

Product details

• Authors: Fernando Rosenberg, Fernando J Rosenberg, Fernando J. Rosenberg
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780822964162
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6416-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Pitt Illuminations; Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas; Pitt Illuminations; Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas; Illuminations
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies