I found this book very useful for my career. It is a great resource for stimulating topics and readings for college courses, from the relationship between literature and revolution to that with ecology, animality, the economy, biopolitics, infrastructure, and new media.
It can also be used as a textbook to teach a Latin American critical theory course, as the expert collaborations in this unique volume also provide valuable information on the state of the discipline of Latin American literature and culture, with all its tensions and disagreements. More specifically, they elaborate on the applicability of the most significant, cutting-edge trends and theoretical approaches (postcolonial, decolonial, infrapolitical, sociological, new materialism, sound studies, transpacific studies, ecocriticism, cosmopolitanism, the affective turn, among others) to the Latin American literature and culture produced over the last 121 years.
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume.
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.
This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.
This is an outstanding collective study of the epistemological, sociopolitical, religious, and cultural transitions that have taken place in colonial Latin America as represented in its foundational cultural discourses. The "Introduction" explains the use of "transition" as a conceptual framework within a genealogy associated with transculturation, syncretism, hybridity, contact zones, and in-betweenness.
With the advent of colonialism, Quispe-Agnoli and Brian point out, the local indigenous population resisted but also appropriated new ways of documenting their reality without necessarily losing their traditional forms, as is often believed.
This interdisciplinary book is divided into six parts, focusing respectively on key cultural phenomena during colonial times: land, space, and territory; the body; belief systems; literacies; languages; and identities.
The contributors, all of them experts in their own subfields, cover a vast geographical space, from the Americas to the Philippines and China, and analyse cultural production and discourses published both in Europe and the Americas, as well as unpublished works; and different genres, including poetry, prose, judicial proceedings, sermons, letters, grammars, and dictionaries.
The year 1492 invokes many instances of transition in a variety of ways that intersected, overlapped, and shaped the emergence of Latin America. For the diverse Native inhabitants of the Americas as well as the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific as part of the early-modern global movements, their lived experiences were defined by transitions. The Iberian territories from approximately 1492-1800 extended from what is now the US Southwest to Tierra del Fuego, and from the Iberian coasts to the Philippines and China. Built around six thematic areas that underline key processes that shaped…
Having written an article on Gods Go Begging in 1996, it was nice to finally see the insightful study that his writing deserves. Roberto Cantú, the leading expert on Véa’s opus, provides a much-needed, well-researched, and engaging study on this important Chicano author.
It is divided into three parts focusing, respectively, on close readings of three novels in Véa’s trilogy: La Maravilla, The Silver Cloud Café, and Gods Go Begging. This expansive and impressive study offers an extremely detailed analysis of Véa’s trilogy, leaving no stone unturned, even though Véa’s prose includes, as Cantú demonstrates, a considerable number of intertextualities (some of them arcane), puns, cultural references, etc.
It is a major contribution to Chicano and Latino literary and cultural studies that will, hopefully, bring attention to the oeuvre of this important writer.
With the publication of La Maravilla (1993), Alfredo Vea entered the world of letters in full possession of his craft as a novelist, blending narrative fiction and engaging anecdotes with allusions to art (music, paintings, poetry) and autobiography (e.g., his tour of duty in Vietnam), written in the poetry and prose of the world with penetrating reflections on America (as an ideal), and the United States (as a country). Vea's narrative trilogy was recognized for its attention to language, ingenious conception at the level of plot and theme, and broad reflections on American society, its history (politics, art, religion, the…
This book considers the influence of a
Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of
several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and
visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans’ unquestionable influence on Mexico’s
history and culture and the historical studies recently published on this
Nikkei community, the study of its cultural production and therefore its
self-definition has been, for the most part, overlooked.
This book, a continuation of author Ignacio
López-Calvo’s previous research on cultural production by Latin American
authors of Asian ancestry, focuses mostly on literature, theater, and visual
arts produced by Japanese immigrants in Mexico and their descendants, rather
than on the Japanese community as a mere object of study.
