Urban Spaces In Contemporary Latin American Literature
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Urban Spaces In Contemporary Latin American Literature
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Author : José Eduardo González
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-29
Urban Spaces In Contemporary Latin American Literature written by José Eduardo González and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-29 with Social Science categories.
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.
Public Pages
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Author : Marcy Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-05-02
Public Pages written by Marcy Schwartz and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, the reading programs all use public space, distribute creative writing to a mass public, foster collective rather than individual reading, and provide access to literature in unconventional arenas. The first international study of contemporary print culture in the Americas, Public Pages reveals how recent cultural policy and collective literary reading intervene in public space to promote social integration in cities in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. Marcy Schwartz looks at broad institutional programs such as UNESCO World Book Capital campaigns and the distribution of free books on public transportation, as well as local initiatives that produce handmade books out of recycled materials (known as cartoneras) and display banned books at former military detention centers. She maps the connection between literary reading and the development of cultural citizenship in Latin America, with municipalities, cultural centers, and groups of ordinary citizens harnessing reading as an activity both social and literary. Along with other strategies for reclaiming democracy after decades of authoritarian regimes and political violence, as well as responding to neoliberal economic policies, these acts of reading collectively in public settings invite civic participation and affirm local belonging.
Rethinking The Informal City
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Author : Felipe Hernández
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012
Rethinking The Informal City written by Felipe Hernández and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.
Creative Spaces
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Author : Niall Geraghty
language : en
Publisher: University of London Press
Release Date : 2019
Creative Spaces written by Niall Geraghty and has been published by University of London Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Cities and towns categories.
Introduction /Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda --I. Where are the margins?1. The politics of the in-between: the negotiation of urban space in Juan Rulfo's photographs of Mexico City /Lucy O'Sullivan ;2. The interstitial spaces of urban sprawl: unpacking the marginal suburban geography of Santiago de Chile /Christian Silva ;3. Cynicism and the denial of marginality in contemporary Chile: Mitómana (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, 2009) /Paul Merchant --II. The struggle for the streets. 4.Community action, the informal city and popular politics in Cartagena (Colombia) during the National Front, 1958-74 /Orlando Deavila Pertuz ;5. On 'real revolution' and 'killing the lion': challenges for creative marginality in Brazilian labor struggles /Lucy McMahon ;6. Urban policies, innovation and inclusion: Comuna 8 of the city of Buenos Aires /Anabella Roitman --III. Marginal art as spatial praxis. 7. Exhibitions in a 'divided' city: socio-spatial inequality and the display of contemporary art in Rio de Janerio /Simone Kalkman ;8. The spatiality of desire in Martín Osterheld's La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega's Dromómanos (2012) /Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda ;9. AfterwardCreative spaces: uninhabiting the urban /Geoffrey Kantaris.
Writing Paris
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Author : Marcy E. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-05-06
Writing Paris written by Marcy E. Schwartz and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores Paris as a desired and imagined place in Latin American postcolonial identity, uncovering the city's class, gender, political, and aesthetic resonances for Latin America
Urban Chroniclers In Modern Latin America
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Author : Viviane Mahieux
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-11-06
Urban Chroniclers In Modern Latin America written by Viviane Mahieux and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mário de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century.
Subterranean Space In Contemporary Mexico City Literature
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Author : Liesbeth François
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-05
Subterranean Space In Contemporary Mexico City Literature written by Liesbeth François and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-05 with Social Science categories.
This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.
The Body As Capital
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Author : Vinodh Venkatesh
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2015-12-10
The Body As Capital written by Vinodh Venkatesh and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Part III. Novel and Transnational Masculinities -- 9. Glocalized Masculinities of the Barrio Alto -- 10. Materializing the Penis -- 11. Challenging Novel Masculinities -- Conclusion: Of Tropes and Men -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Unfolding The City
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Author : Anne Lambright
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2007
Unfolding The City written by Anne Lambright and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Cities and towns in literature categories.
The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America, where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women's views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time, Unfolding the City addresses issues of gender and the urban in literature--particularly lesser-known works of literature--written by Latin American women from Mexico City, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. The contributors propose new mappings of urban space; interpret race and class dynamics; and describe Latin American urban centers in the context of globalization. Contributors: Debra A. Castillo, Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess, U of Maryl∧ Guillermo Irizarry, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom, U of Texas, Austin; Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby, Mount Holyoke Colle≥ Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos, Yale U; Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, U of Michigan; Gareth Williams, U of Michigan. Anne Lambright is associate professor of modern languages and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is associate professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.
Representations Of China In Latin American Literature 1987 2016
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Author : Maria Montt Strabucchi
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-15
Representations Of China In Latin American Literature 1987 2016 written by Maria Montt Strabucchi and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.