| Description |
1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures.
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| Contents |
Performing ruins / Diana Taylor -- Scribbling on the wreck / Francine Masiello -- "Oh tiempo tus piramides": ruins in Borges / Daniel Balderston -- Translating ruins: an American parable / Sylvia Molloy -- Machu Picchu recycled / Regina Harrison -- The ruins of the present: Cuzco evoked / Sara Castro-Klaren -- Ruins in the desert: field notes by a filmmaker / Andres Di Tella -- The twentieth century as ruin: tango and historical memory / Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams -- Modernist ruins: the case study of Tlatelolco / Ruben Gallo -- Pinochet's cadaver as ruin and Palimpsest / Michael J. Lazzara -- Spatial truth and reconciliation: Peru, 2003-2004 / Jill Lane -- "Words of the dead": ruins, resistance, and reconstruction in Ayacucho / Leslie Bayers -- Tlatelolco: from ruins to poetry / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- Sites of memory, emptying remembrance / Nelly Richard -- History, neurosis, and subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra's rewriting of neoliberal ruins / Idelber Avelar -- All in a day's work: ruins dwellers in Havana / Vicky Unruh -- Witness to the ruins: an artist's testimony / Rolf Abderhalden Cortés -- Coming home to Praia de Flamengo: the once and future national student union headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Victoria Langland -- Fernando Vallejo's ruinous heterotopias: the queer subject in Latin America's urban spaces / Arturo Arias -- Charges and discharges / Diamela Eltit -- Angels among ruins / Sandra Lorenzana |
| Summary |
As a merger of past, present and future, and as a material embodiment of change, the ruin offers a fertile locale for competing cultural stories about historical events, political projects, and the constitution of communities. A fascination with pre-Columbian ruins already marked Latin American nineteenth-century nation-building projects as well as early twentieth-century artistic experiments that linked avant-garde originality with imagined new beginnings. This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cultural property -- Social aspects -- Latin America
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY.
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Historiography
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Intellectual life
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Social conditions
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Latin America -- Antiquities -- Social aspects
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Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
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Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Latin America -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lazzara, Michael J., 1975-
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Unruh, Vicky.
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| ISBN |
9780230623279 |
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0230623271 |
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1282557114 |
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9781282557116 |
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9781349372720 |
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1349372722 |
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