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Peripheral Transmodernities
This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans’ cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis’ mediation. These South-to-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the hegemonic, Eurocentric center) and the colonies. These essays about Hispanic and Latino cultural production (most of them dealing with literature, but some covering urban art, music, and film) provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance. In some of them, we can find peripheral subjectivities’ perception of other peripheral, racialized, and (post)colonial subjects and their cultures.
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture
This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, and gender in the formation of the fin-de-siècle Spanish and Spanish colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on gender, race (largely as it relates to the themes of nationhood and empire), and social class, few studies have focused on how these categories interacted, frequently operating simultaneously to reveal contexts in which dominated groups were dominating and vice versa.
A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan
Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades. Based on in-depth research in archives throughout the country as well as field work including several interviews, Japanese-speaking Mexican scholar Araceli Tinajero uncovers a transnational, contemporary cultural history that is not only important for today but for future generations.
The Museums of Contemporary Art
Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of terminology, the first part of the book then examines the paradigm of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris and its equivalents in the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. The second part takes the story forward from 1930 to the present, presenting New York's Museum of Modern Art as a new unive...
Japan in the 1960s
Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points. This book is the first to see the 1960s as a historical subject in its own right and argues that the specificity and internal complexity rooted in East Asia during this period showed how East Asians were dynamic agents in shaping the decade. In this volume, contributors consider Japanese responses to a 1961 cou...
Japón: Modernidad y vanguardia
La relevancia de Japón en nuestra cultura contemporánea se aborda en varios estudios que se compendian en Japón: Modernidad y vanguardia. Desde enfoques multidisciplinares, este libro presenta un recorrido por algunos de los hitos de la vanguardia japonesa y por los aspectos de su modernidad que han sido influyentes también fuera del archipiélago nipón. Los estudios de Japón: Modernidad y vanguardia tratan temas de literatura, cine, cerámica, escultura, urbanismo, arte, manga, videojuegos, música, sociología y turismo.
Japón y el mundo actual
LA ACTUAL POSICIÓN DE JAPÓN EN EL MUNDO, las relaciones con el mundo hispánico y su influencia en nuestra cultura son los principales ejes que articulan este ambicioso libro, en el cual se presentan los recientes estudios de un amplio conjunto de investigadores y expertos en las ciencias sociales, económicas, jurídicas, así como de la antropología, el pensamiento, las artes, las letras y la industria audiovisual del Japón contemporáneo. Esta obra facilita al lector varias claves para interpretar el Japón actual, pero, sobre todo, muestra la necesidad de reforzar las relaciones hispano-japonesas en una era en la que el interés cultural mutuo es un puente para el encuentro.
Museología, crítica y arte contemporáneo
Desde hace años estamos viviendo una eclosión de nuevos museos de arte contemporáneo, muchos de ellos creados por mera emulación política o fruto de un voluntarismo activista, sin pensar previamente su línea de actuación. En torno a dicho fenómeno y a sus antecedentes históricos, un largo elenco de autores de diferentes especialidades y procedencias intenta aportar en este libro unas dosis de reflexión desde el ámbito de la museología, una disciplina que está en vías de renovación gracias a la llamada museología crítica, corriente que desde aquí se quiere ayudar a divulgar y promocionar.
Regarding the real
Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture. Throughout, the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary, and for whom the documentary is an endlessly open form; an unstable expressive phenomenon that cannot help but interrogate its own narratives and intentions. Combining close analysis with cultural history, the book re-assesses the influence of the modern arts in subverting structures of realism typically associated with the documentary. In the course of its discussion, it charts a fascinating path that leads from Len Lye to Hiroshi Teshigahara, and includes along the way figures such as Joseph Cornell, Johan van der Keuken, William Klein, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonas Mekas and Raymond Depardon.
Nuevas visiones sobre el cómic
El cómic es uno de los medios más ricos y, sin embargo, menos explorados de la contemporaneidad. El presente libro da voz a algunos de los especialistas e investigadores internacionales más destacados en el estudio de esta manifestación artística, constituyendo uno de los mayores esfuerzos por abordar el estudio de la historieta desde la interdisciplinariedad. El enriquecimiento que supone el contraste de diferentes metodologías permite abordar la capacidad del cómic para reflejar nuestro presente, su fuerza como instrumento pedagógico o los vínculos, siempre existentes pero cada vez mayores, entre el cómic y las artes plásticas, la literatura, el diseño o, por supuesto, el cine
