Although primitivism has received renewed attention in recent
years, studies linking it with Latin America have been rare. This
volume examines primitivism and its implications for contemporary
debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing
how Latin American subjects employ a Western construct to "return
the gaze" of the outside world and redefine themselves in relation
to modernity.
Examining such subjects as Julio CortAzar and Frida Kahlo and
such topics as folk art and cinema, the volume brings together for
the first time the views of scholars who are currently engaging the
task of cultural studies from the standpoint of primitivism. These
varied contributions include analyses of Latin American art in
relation to social issues, popular culture, and official cultural
policy; essays in cultural criticism touching on ethnic identity,
racial politics, women's issues, and conflictive modernity; and
analytical studies of primitivism's impact on narrative theory and
practice, film, theater, and poetry.
This collection contributes offers a new perspective on a
variety of significant debates in Latin American cultural studies
and shows that the term "primitive" does not apply to these
cultures as much as to our understanding of them. CONTENTS
Paradise Subverted: The Invention of the Mexican Character / Roger
Bartra
Between Sade and the Savage: Octavio Pazas Aztecs / Amaryll
Chanady
Under the Shadow of God: Roots of Primitivism in Early Colonial
Mexico / Delia Annunziata Cosentino
Of "Alebrijes" and "Ocumichos": Some Myths about Folk Art and
Mexican Identity / Eli Bartra
Primitive Borders: Cultural Identity and Ethnic Cleansing in the
DominicanRepublic / Fernando Valerio-HolguA-n
Dialectics of Archaism and Modernity: Technique and Primitivism in
Angel Ramaas "TransculturaciA3n narrativa en AmA(c)rica Latina" /
JosA(c) Eduardo GonzAlez
Narrative Primitivism: Theory and Practice in Latin America / Erik
Camayd-Freixas
Narrating the Other: Julio CortAzaras "Axolotl" as Ethnographic
Allegory / R. Lane Kauffmann
Jungle Fever: Primitivism in Environmentalism; RA3mulo Gallegosas
"Canaima" and the Romance of the Jungle / Jorge Marcone
Primitivism and Cultural Production: Futureas Memory; Native
Peoplesa Voices in Latin American Society / Ivete Lara Camargos
Walty
Primitive Bodies in Latin American Cinema: NicolAs EchevarrA-aas
"Cabeza de Vaca" / Luis Fernando Restrepo
Subliminal Body: Shamanism, Ancient Theater, and Ethnodrama /
Gabriel Weisz
Primitivist Construction of Identity in the Work of Frida Kahlo /
Wendy B. Faris
"Mi andina y dulce Rita": Women, Indigenism, and the Avant-Garde in
CA(c)sar Vallejo / Tace Megan Hedrick
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