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Disoriented Disciplines
An urgent call to think on the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries In the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce. As Rosario Hubert reveals, modernism flourishes comparatively, in contexts where cultural criticism is a creative and cosmopolitan practice. Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature understands translation as a material act of transfer, decentering the authority of the text and connecting seemingly untranslatabl...
Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.
Portable Postsocialisms
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide. Why does Cuban socialism endure as an object of international political desire, while images of capitalist markets consume Cuba’s national imagination? This bold new study argues that Cuba’s changing media cultures are key to our understanding of the global postsocialist condition and its competing political imaginaries. Portable Postsocialisms calls on a vast multimedia archive to offer a groundbreaking cultural interpretation of Cuban postsocialism. Paloma Duon...
The Slum and the City
The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums have produced culture as well as their representation in literature and the visual arts from the 1950s to the present. Looking at government-led urban projects, as well as novels, artworks, films, militant magazines, poems, and music, she tells the story of how villas miseria have mattered culturally and socially as spaces that produce new aesthetics, cultural trends, and social alliances, while offering a vantage point to understand the city and its problems. Slums represent a heterogeneous urban space, and Codebò makes the case for their relevance in Argentine culture, demonstrates the need to rethink spaces of production, and develops a new premise for a decolonial approach to Argentine cultural production.
Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890–1934
This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina’s modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina’s purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina’s modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day.
The Desertmakers
This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel in the context of the consolidation of state apparatuses in these countries, Uriarte underlines the essential role that war (in connection to empire and capital) has played in the Latin American process of modernization and state formation. In this book, the analysis of British and Latin American travel narratives proves particularly productive in reading the ways in which national spaces are reconfigured, reimagined, and reappropriated by the...
The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges contextualizes the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century readers and critics. Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Borges has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. This volume shifts the emphasis to Borges's working life, his writing processes, his collaborations and networks, and the political and cultural background of his production. It also evaluates his impact on a variety of other fields ranging from political science and philosophy to media studies and mathematics.
Other Worlds
Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.
Kant en el kiosco
Con herramientas propias de la historia del libro, la sociología de la cultura y los estudios culturales, Kant en el kiosco analiza las múltiples transformaciones de la cultura del libro en la Argentina en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Ganador de la primera edición del Premio Ampersand de Ensayo en la categoría Cultura Escrita, este riguroso trabajo de Guido Herzovich se enfoca en el modo en que las estrategias de las editoriales, las prácticas de los lectores y los discursos de la crítica literaria y la publicidad se transformaron y reconfiguraron el espacio literario. Un espacio donde confluyen el origen y los modos de inserción de los escritores, el perfil de los editores y la organización de colecciones, los modos de distribución y la estructura de las librerías, el rol de crítica literaria y de la publicidad, y también las formas de consumo de los lectores, la visibilidad de sus prácticas y el imaginario de los intelectuales sobre las condiciones y las exigencias de la intervención cultural.
Sinfonía para un Monstruo
Este libro recopila a doce autores que, desde distintas perspectivas –la crítica académica, el periodismo cultural o el ensayo literario–, se han animado a adentrarse en la espesa selva del "realismo delirante" de Alberto Laiseca (1941-2016). Desde la preocupación por la trayectoria del autor en el campo literario argentino y la actitud de culto hacia su figura "plebeya" y original, pasando por los motivos del novelista atonal y su proyecto creador hiperbólico, el delirio de grandeza, el dictador como artista y la guerra total, hasta las matrices discursivas que cristalizan en Los sorias, su mayor novela y quizás la más extensa escrita en nuestro país, los textos aquí compilados van desglosando los componentes y alcances de uno de los proyectos creadores más complejos de la literatura argentina, así como una de las experiencias estéticas más extravagantes y perturbadoras que puedan encontrarse en la literatura contemporánea.
