Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms</em><b> </b>brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. </p><p>Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture.</p><p>This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.</p> <p><em>Acknowledgments</em></p><p><em>Introduction</em></p><p>Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind</p><p>Part I</p><p>Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Avant-Gardes in Latin America: A Polemical Intervention on Historical and Neo-Vanguardias</li> <p>Fernando J. Rosenberg</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body</li> <p>Javier Guerrero</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work</li> <p>Alejandra Laera</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions</li> <p>Verónica Gago</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0</li> <p>Sayak Valencia </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Formations of Sense </li> <p>Horacio Legrás</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>What Is Popular Art?</li> <p>Karen Benezra </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms</li> <p>Sarah Ann Wells</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Literature and Revolution in Latin America</li> <p>Juan E. De Castro</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature</li> <p>Benjamin Loy</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Political Art of Memory in Latin America</li> <p>Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures</li> <p>Arturo Arias</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations</li> <p>Victoria Liendo</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Gisèle Freund’s Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography </li> <p>Alejandra Uslenghi</p> <b> </b><p> </p> <p>Part II</p> <p>Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies</p> <p> </p> <li>Peopling Latin Americanism</li> <p>Fernando Degiovanni</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War</li> <p>Jesús Cano Reyes</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Orient, the Rim, and the World</li> <p>Rosario Hubert</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection</li> <p>Alexandra Ortiz Wallner</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries</li> <p>Mariano Siskind</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form</li> <p>Jens Andermann</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age</li> <p>Bruno Carvalho </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo</li> <p>Esther Whitfield </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture</li> <p>Charlotte Rogers</p> <p> </p> <b> </b><p>Part III</p> <p>A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations</p> <p> </p> <li>Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows</li> <p>Lisa Blackmore</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Ecocriticism</li> <p>Gisela Heffes</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film <i>Petróleo cubano</i> </li> <p>Rachel Price</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Afterlives of Biopolitics</li> <p>Gabriel Giorgi</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean</li> <p>Nicole Fadellin</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation</li> <p>Persephone Braham</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures</li> <p>Odette Casamayor-Cisneros</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>A Horizontal Hospitality</li> <p>Guillermina De Ferrari</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America</li> <p>Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa</li> <p>Cecilia Macón</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America</li> <p>Anke Birkenmeier</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetry and Prose Fiction</li> <p>Idelber Avelar</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night</li> <p>Luís Madureira</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li> <em>Él no es</em>: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy</li> <p>Gareth Williams</p> <p> </p> <b> </b><p>Part IV</p> <p>Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices</p> <p> </p> <li>Distorting Latinamericanism</li> <p>Erin Graff Zivin</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Sensationalism</li> <p>Sergio Delgado Moya</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Nature and Labor in Literary Form</li> <p>Héctor Hoyos</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li> <em>Cartonera</em> Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital</li> <p>Paloma Celis Carbajal</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs</li> <p>Gesine Müller</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century</li> <p>Antonia Viu</p> <p> </p> <li>Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature</li> <p>Michelle Clayton</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil</li> <p>Falina Enríquez</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations</li> <p>Marcela A. Fuentes</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts</li> <p>Natalia Brizuela</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Media Archaeology and e-Literature </li> <p>Phillip Penix-Tadsen</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking</li> </ol><p>Scott Weintraub</p><p>Index</p>