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

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind

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

Fernando J. Rosenberg



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

Javier Guerrero



3. Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work

Alejandra Laera



4. Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions

Verónica Gago



5. Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0

Sayak Valencia



6. Formations of Sense

Horacio Legrás



7. What Is Popular Art?

Karen Benezra



8. Work's Figures, Work's Forms

Sarah Ann Wells



9. Literature and Revolution in Latin America

Juan E. De Castro



10. The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature

Benjamin Loy



11. The Political Art of Memory in Latin America

Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett



12. Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures

Arturo Arias



13. Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations

Victoria Liendo



14. Gisèle Freund's Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography

Alejandra Uslenghi

Part II
Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies


15. Peopling Latin Americanism

Fernando Degiovanni



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

Jesús Cano Reyes



17. The Orient, the Rim, and the World

Rosario Hubert



18. Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection

Alexandra Ortiz Wallner



19. Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries

Mariano Siskind



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

Jens Andermann



21. Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age

Bruno Carvalho



22. Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo

Esther Whitfield



23. 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


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

Lisa Blackmore



25. Ecocriticism

Gisela Heffes



26. Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié's Film Petróleo cubano

Rachel Price



27. The Afterlives of Biopolitics

Gabriel Giorgi



28. Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nicole Fadellin



29. Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation

Persephone Braham



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

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros



31. A Horizontal Hospitality

Guillermina De Ferrari



32. Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes



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

Cecilia Macón



34. Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America

Anke Birkenmeier



35. Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges's Poetry and Prose Fiction

Idelber Avelar



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

Luís Madureira



37. Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy

Gareth Williams

Part IV
Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices


38. Distorting Latinamericanism

Erin Graff Zivin



39. Sensationalism

Sergio Delgado Moya



40. Nature and Labor in Literary Form

Héctor Hoyos



41. Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital

Paloma Celis Carbajal



42. Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs

Gesine Müller



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

Antonia Viu


44. Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature

Michelle Clayton



45. New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil

Falina Enríquez



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

Marcela A. Fuentes



47. Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts

Natalia Brizuela



48. Media Archaeology and e-Literature

Phillip Penix-Tadsen



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

Scott Weintraub
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

This Companion brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

Product details

• Assisted by: Guillermina De Ferrari (Editor), Mariano Siskind (Editor), Siskind Mariano (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032285955
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228595-5
• No. of pages: 540
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 29 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Illustrations: 36 SW-Abb., 36 SW-Fotos, 2 Tabellen
• Series: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
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