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Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.
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.
Cartografias cosmopolitas: Leon de Greiff y la tradicion literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramirez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and peripheries, revendicating marginality as a productive condition. The study of this alternative cosmopolitanism brings de Greiff's writings into current debates about Latin America's cultural positionality within the frame of global cultural networks and world literature.Cartografias cosmopolitas: Leon de Greiff y la tradicion literaria analiza la obra de este poeta colombiano del siglo XX como una manifestacion de cosmopolitismo, cartografias culturales globales y la construccion de una genealogia poetica. Ramirez Rojas se acerca a los poemas de Leon de Greiff como mapas culturales que revelan tanto un deseo de conexion con el mundo como una necesidad de reorganizar el archivo imaginario de la literatura mundial. Desde una asumida posicion de excentricidad, de Greiff construye una red de conexiones globales y pone en cuestion las divisiones binarias de centro y periferia, reivindicando asi su marginalidad como una condicion productiva. El estudio de este cosmopolitismo alternativo contextualiza los textos de Leon de Greiff en los debates actuales sobre el posicionamiento de America Latina dentro de las redes de cultura global y de la literatura mundial.
Cartografias cosmopolitas: Leon de Greiff y la tradicion literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramirez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and peripheries, revendicating marginality as a productive condition. The study of this alternative cosmopolitanism brings de Greiff's writings into current debates about Latin America's cultural positionality within the frame of global cultural networks and world literature.Cartografias cosmopolitas: Leon de Greiff y la tradicion literaria analiza la obra de este poeta colombiano del siglo XX como una manifestacion de cosmopolitismo, cartografias culturales globales y la construccion de una genealogia poetica. Ramirez Rojas se acerca a los poemas de Leon de Greiff como mapas culturales que revelan tanto un deseo de conexion con el mundo como una necesidad de reorganizar el archivo imaginario de la literatura mundial. Desde una asumida posicion de excentricidad, de Greiff construye una red de conexiones globales y pone en cuestion las divisiones binarias de centro y periferia, reivindicando asi su marginalidad como una condicion productiva. El estudio de este cosmopolitismo alternativo contextualiza los textos de Leon de Greiff en los debates actuales sobre el posicionamiento de America Latina dentro de las redes de cultura global y de la literatura mundial.
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