Telling ruins in Latin America /
Lazzara, Michael J.,1975-
Unruh, Vicky.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cultural property