The utopian impulse in Latin America / edited by Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beauchesne, Kim, 1976-

Santos, Alessandra, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias--Latin America.

Utopias.

Utopias in literature.

Utopias in art.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

vi, 307 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"The present volume explores the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today. With an interdisciplinary approach, the texts included discuss the notion of a utopian impulse in literature, music, performance, cinema, visual arts, critical theory, cultural studies, and political science. Among the many questions the book grapples with are how the utopian impulse is reconfigured over time, especially in new cultural fields and situations, and how Latin American utopias should be contextualized in the so-called global era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foundational Utopias

Utopia in Latin America: Cartographies and Paradigms / Beatriz Pastor Pastor, Beatriz

Barataria from the Perspective of Hispanic American "Colonial" Studies: Contributions for a Reading of (Counter)Utopia in the Quijote and the New World / José Antonio Mazzotti Mazzotti, José Antonio

Utopia and Modernity

Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exhibition / Alejandra Uslenghi Uslenghi, Alejandra

Ecocannibalism: The Greening of Antropofagia / Odile Cisneros Cisneros, Odile

Eulalia in Utopia: Urban Space, Modernity, and Gendered Typologies in Rubén Darío and Hilda Hilst / Justin Read Read, Justin

Feminist Utopias

Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán's Pérégrinations d'une paria / Gisela Heffes Heffes, Gisela

Revolution Interrupted: The " Women of April' and the Utopia of National Liberation / Wanda Rivera-Rivera Rivera-Rivera, Wanda

Utopia and Counterculture

Jorge Mautner and Countercultural Utopia in Brazil / Christoper Dunn Dunn, Christoper

Spatial Effects: Navigating the City in Cildo Meireles's Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira / Elena Shtromberg Shtromberg, Elena

Revolutionary Utopias and the Politics of Memory

Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias: From Banditry to Party in Jorge Amado's Seara Vermelha / Juan Pablo Dabove Dabove, Juan Pablo

Utopia and the Politics of Memory / Diana Sorensen Sorensen, Diana

The Innocent Eye: Children's Perspectives on the Utopias of the Seventies (O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, Machuca, and Kamchatka) / Rita De Grandis Grandis, Rita De

Utopia and Ethnicity in the Twenty-First Century

Urgent (Anti)Spectacles of Critical Hope / Carla Melo Melo, Carla

Recent Peruvian Quechua Poetry: Beyond Andean and Neoliberal Utopias / Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar Zevallos-Aguilar, Ulises Juan.

ISBN:

9780230103528

0230103529

OCLC:

670481141