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Author: Jason A. Bartles
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.515kg
ISBN: 9781612496665
ISBN 10: 1612496660
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 30 April 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews
Jason Bartles's ArteletrA offers a unique, innovative framework for reading an era in Latin American cultural history that seemed foreclosed to further literary or political readings. By providing a heuristic for reading against the currents of the cultural maps of the 1960s, Bartles not only helps us revisit this decade by attending to works and writers other than the ones we commonly associate with the period, but he also opens up a much-needed space today for alternative forms of utopian thinking. Creating a dialogue between works by Calvert Casey (Cuba, 1924-69), Juan Filloy (Argentina, 1894-2000), and Armonia Somers (Uruguay, 1914-94) proves the value of comparative analysis when examining a time in the production of Latin American literatures and politics that makes sense only transnationally. The politics of going unnoticed enacted by the various characters analyzed by Bartles compels us to see this crucial period in Latin American politics outside the logic of success and failure. Instead, ArteletrA unsettles and interrogates this binary, as it does those between visibility and invisibility, transparency and opacity, that structure the political up until today. Mariela Mendez, University of Richmond
Jason Bartles's ArteletrA offers a unique, innovative framework for reading an era in Latin American cultural history that seemed foreclosed to further literary or political readings. By providing a heuristic for reading against the currents of the cultural maps of the 1960s, Bartles not only helps us revisit this decade by attending to works and writers other than the ones we commonly associate with the period, but he also opens up a much-needed space today for alternative forms of utopian thinking. Creating a dialogue between works by Calvert Casey (Cuba, 1924-69), Juan Filloy (Argentina, 1894-2000), and Armonía Somers (Uruguay, 1914-94) proves the value of comparative analysis when examining a time in the production of Latin American literatures and politics that makes sense only transnationally. The politics of going unnoticed enacted by the various characters analyzed by Bartles compels us to see this crucial period in Latin American politics outside the logic of success and failure. Instead, ArteletrA unsettles and interrogates this binary, as it does those between visibility and invisibility, transparency and opacity, that structure the political up until today. Mariela Méndez, University of Richmond
Author Information
Jason A. Bartles is an associate professor at West Chester University. He received his BA from Gettysburg College and his MA and PhD in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research explores the political, aesthetic, and ethical discourses that restore the possibilities for utopian thinking in the fiction and essays of twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American and Latinx writers. He has published articles in Aztl?ín, Revista Iberoamericana, Variaciones Borges, Revista Hisp?ínica Moderna, and Revista de Estudios Hisp?ínicos. His fiction has appeared in Punchnel's, Here Comes Everyone, Boned, The Metaworker, and in the collection, My Utopia, at Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
