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Author:   Jens Andermann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ,  Ben Bollig (28University of Oxford, UK) ,  Lorraine Leu (University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA) ,  Daniel Mosquera (Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.850kg
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9780367217860

ISBN 10:   0367217864
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   23 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Temporalities 1. War and Cultural Studies: Reflections on Recent Work in Peru and Argentina 2. The Reconfigurations of Post-dictatorship Critical Thought 3. For whom the eye cries: Memory, monumentality, and the ontologies of violence in Peru 4. The Last Sacred Image of the Latin American Revolution Part II: Territories 5. Hemispheric Domains: 1898 and the Origins of Latin Americanism 6. Patagonia as Borderland: Nature, Culture, and the Idea of the State 7. The Return of Coatlicue: Mexican nationalism and the Aztec past 8. A Short Andean History of Photography: Yawar Fiesta 9. Cuba: A curated culture Part III: Aesthetics 10. Argentina’s secret poetry boom 11. Tin Tan: the Pachuco 12. (Queer) boleros of a tropical night 13. Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the coding of nationality in sound Part IV: Affects 14. Sabina’s Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889–1930 15. Mob Outrages: Reflections on the media construction of the masses in Venezuela (April 2000–January 2003) 16. The City Cross-dressed: Sexual Rights and Roll-backs in De la Rúa’s Buenos Aires 17. Conspicuous Consumption and the Performance of Identity in Contemporary Mexico: Daniela Rossell’s Ricas y famosas Part V: Cityscapes 18. From Urb of Clay to the Hypodermic City: Improper cities in Modern Latin America 19. Obverse Colonization: São Paulo, global urbanization and the poetics of the Latin American city 20. Favelas and the Aesthetics of Realism: Representations in film and literature 21. Amores Perros: Exotic violence and neoliberal fear Part VI: Medialities 22. Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse' 23. Material Culture, Slavery, and Governability in Colonial Cuba: The humorous lessons of the cigarette Marquillas 24. Indigenous media and the end of the lettered city 25. Subjective displacements and ‘reserves of life’

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Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O’Bryen and David M. J. Wood are Editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

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