Title The senses of democracy : perception, politics, and culture in Latin America / Francine R. Masiello

Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) Series The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. Contents Sensing the early republic -- Troubled by gender : technology and perception in the women's nineteenth century -- Collective synesthesia : the 1920s avant-garde -- A politics of perception against the state -- By way of a conclusion : a sense of the now Summary In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis: when the discourse on democracy is altered--when nations fall into crisis or the increased weight of modernity tests minds and nerves--the representation of our sensing bodies plays a crucial role in explaining order and rebellion, cultural innovation, and social change. Taking a wide arc of materials--periodicals, memoirs, political proclamations, and travel logs, along with art installations and fiction--and focusing on the technologies that supplement and enhance human perception, Masiello looks at the evolution of what she calls "sense work" in cultural texts, mainly from Latin America, that wend from the heights of romantic thought to the startling innovations of modernism in the early twentieth century and then to times of posthuman experience when cyber bodies hurtle through globalized space and human senses are reproduced by machines. Tracing the shifting debates on perceptions, The Senses of Democracy offers a new paradigm with which to speak of Latin American cultural history and launches a field for the comparative study of bodies, experience, pleasure, and pain over the continental divide. In the end, sense work helps us to understand how culture finds its location Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Democracy in literature. Senses and sensation -- Social aspects Synesthesia -- Social aspects Literature and society -- Latin America Politics and culture -- Latin America Social change -- Latin America Democracy -- Latin America BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. HISTORY / Latin America / General Democracy Democracy in literature Literature Literature and society Politics and culture Senses and sensation -- Social aspects Social change SUBJECT Latin America -- Literatures -- History and criticism Subject Latin America Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477315057 1477315055 1477315039 9781477315033

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