Telling Ruins in Latin America [electronic resource] /
Lazzara, M.editor.
Unruh, V.editor.
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.
Description based upon print version of record.
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 at the end of each chapters and index.
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.
Cultural studies.
Motion pictures—History.
America—Literatures.
Architecture.
Arts.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Cultural Studies.
Film History.
North American Literature.
Architecture, general.
Arts.
Latin American Culture.