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Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American
writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and
his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on
contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges'
international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view
in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with
abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question
of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez
begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the
"real," and provides a detailed analysis of the various political
issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The
author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that
shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges'
output.
Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American
writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and
his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on
contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges'
international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view
in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with
abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question
of politics in his writing
Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the
proposition that Borges withdraws from the "real," and provides a
detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes
up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular
emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social
history during the period of Borges' output.
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.
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.
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
Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary
and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical
work. In this study, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's
response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter
Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukacs. Gonzalez argues that
Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and
descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus
reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged
prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.
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