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Violencia, poder y afectos - narrativas del miedo en Latinoamerica (Spanish, Hardcover)
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Violencia, poder y afectos - narrativas del miedo en Latinoamerica (Spanish, Hardcover)
Series: Violence in the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds
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How have sociopolitical fears been enacted, represented and
performed in societies marked by repression, conflict and abuse of
power? And how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological
discourses and cultural productions? Violencia, poder y afectos:
narrativas del miedo en Latinoamerica ofrece una contribucion
critica al estudio de las representaciones de los miedos
sociopoliticos en la literatura y el cine contemporaneos. Este
volumen estudia las consecuencias inmediatas y de larga duracion de
la violencia y el terror en las sociedades latinoamericanas desde
varias perspectivas teoricas. Los capitulos del libro abordan dos
preguntas centrales: ?como se han asumido, asimilado y representado
los diversos temores sociopoliticos que caracterizan a unas
sociedades marcadas por el conflicto, la represion y el abuso de
poder? y ?como este afecto ha marcado los discursos esteticos e
ideologicos de las producciones culturales? Mediante el estudio de
las obras de escritores y productores culturales contemporaneos
incluso Monica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Rey Rosa,
Alonso Cueto y Manlio Argueta, los colaboradores de este libro
examinan el clima de terror y ansiedad provocados por las guerras
civiles en Guatemala, El Salvador y Peru; la guerra de las drogas
en Mexico; la invasion estadounidense a Panama en 1989; asi como
las dinamicas de desigualdad de clase y genero en Ecuador y Mexico.
Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamerica
offers a critical contribution to studies of the representation of
socio-politically inflicted fears in contemporary literature and
film. This volume looks at the immediate and long-lasting
consequences of violence and terror in Latin American societies
from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Chapters of the book
engage with two central questions: How have sociopolitical fears
been enacted, represented and performed in societies marked by
repression, conflict and abuse of power? And how has this emotion
shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural
productions? Looking at contemporary writers and cultural producers
including Monica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Rey Rosa,
Alonso Cueto and Manlio Argueta, the contributors of this volume
examine the climate of terror and anxiety resulting from the civil
wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru; the war on drugs in
Mexico; the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; and dynamics of class and
gender power imbalances in Ecuador and Mexico.
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