Representing the barrios : culture, politics, and urban poverty in twentieth-century Caracas / Rebecca Jarman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarman, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

Against a backdrop of rapid urbanization and the growth of a global economy powered by carbon, Rebecca Jarman argues that in Venezuela, urban poverty has become one of the most important resources in national culture and statecraft. Attracting the attentions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from within and beyond the limits of Caracas, the barrios are fetishized in the cultural domain as sites of rampant sex, crime, revolution, disease, and violence. The appeal of the urban poor in entertainment is replicated in the policies of autocratic leaders who, operating within an extractivist matrix that prizes the acquisition of land and capital, have sought to expand their reach into these densely populated territories. Sometimes yielding to commodification, the barrios also have resisted exploitation by exceeding the terms of their representation in hegemonic culture and politics. Whether troubling the narratives that profit from poverty or undermining class-based stereotypes with experimental aesthetics, the barrio as a shifting set of coordinates consistently evades appropriations of disenfranchisement. Mapping the recurrent tensions, anxieties, conflicts, aspirations, and blind spots that characterize depictions of the barrios, Rebecca Jarman elaborates a dynamic cultural analysis of the history of poverty in the Venezuelan capital.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Urban Scenarios

Part I: Writing Anxieties

Chapter 1: Fears of Migration and Destitution in Rómulo Gallegos's Early Fiction (1909-1922)

Chapter 2: Landless Literature and Its Limitations in Teresa de la Parra's Ifigenia (1924)

Part II: Melodrama at the Margins

Chapter 3: Bucolic Nationalism in La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde (1950)

Chapter 4: Screening Transitions: Román Chalbaud's Caín adolescente (1959)

Part III: Criminal Testimonies

Chapter 5: The Penalization of Poverty in Juan Sebastián Aldana's Reten de Catia (1972)

Chapter 6: The Politics of Delinquency in Ramón Antonio Brizuela's Soy un delincuente (1974)

Part IV: Polarized Poetics

Chapter 7: A City Divided: Caracas in Verse during the 1980s

Chapter 8: Performance and Protest in Jose Roberto Duque's Salsa y control (1996)

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jarman, Rebecca Representing the Barrios

ISBN:

9780822989714

OCLC:

1378392611